Modern Hamlets & Their Soliloquies: An Expanded Edition

by Maher, Mary Z.; Andrews, John F.; Postlewait, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780877458265
• ISBN10: 087745826X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr

Summary

In Modern Hamlets and Their Soliloquies (Iowa, 1992), Mary Maher examined how modern actors have chosen to perform Hamlet's soliloquies, and why they made the choices they made, within the context of their specific productions of the play.

Author Biography

Mary Maher is professor emerita at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Hamlet's Soliloquies	p. xxxi
John Gielgud: The Glass of Fashion	p. 1
Guinness, Olivier, and Burton: The Mould of Form	p. 19
David Warner: The Rogue and Peasant Slave	p. 41
Ben Kingsley: In My Mind's Eye	p. 63
Derek Jacobi: The Courtier, Soldier, Scholar	p. 92
Anton Lesser: A Noble Mind	p. 121
David Rintoul: Th' Observ'd of All Observers	p. 135
Randall Duk Kim: Sir, a Whole History	p. 153
Kevin Kline: In Action How Like an Angel	p. 175
Kenneth Branagh: Speak, I Am Bound to Hear	p. 201
Simon Russell Beale: The Motive and the Cue for Passion	p. 227
Notes	p. 247
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