Hamlet (Norton Critical Editions)

Hamlet (Norton Critical Editions)

Hamlet, Shakespeareâ€™s most famous play, is now available in an all-new, illustrated Norton Critical Edition.
This Norton Critical Edition of Hamlet features a newly edited text based on the Second Quarto (1604â€“05). It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations and appendices providing important passages from both the First Quarto Hamlet (1603) and the Folio Hamlet (1623). Robert S. Miolaâ€™s thought-provoking introduction, â€œImagining Hamlet,â€ considers this tragedy as it has taken shape in the theater, in criticism, and in various cultures.

â€œThe Actorsâ€™ Galleryâ€ presents famous actors and actressesâ€•among them Sarah Bernhardt, Ellen Terry, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton, Kenneth Branagh, and Jude Lawâ€•reflecting on their roles in major productions of Hamlet for stage and screen. â€œContextsâ€ includes generous selections from the Bible, Greek (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides) and Roman (Seneca) tragedies, Saxo Grammaticus, Dante, Thomas More, and Thomas Kyd.

â€œCriticismâ€ reprints a wide range of historical and scholarly commentary including English critics (John Dryden, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Johnson), European and Russian writers (Voltaire, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Leo Tolstoy), and Americans (John Quincy Adams, Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln). Recent scholarly writing takes various approaches to Hamletâ€•mythic (Gilbert Murray), psychoanalytic (Ernest Jones), comparativist (Harry Levin), feminist (Elaine Showalter), and New Historicist (Stephen Greenblatt), among others.

An engaging selection of Hamletâ€™s â€œAfterlivesâ€ includes the seventeenth-century Der Bestrafte Brudermord; David Garrickâ€™s altered stage version; comic reflections by Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Tom Stoppard; and selections from Heinrich Mullerâ€™s postmodern nightmare (Hamletmachine), Jawad al Assadiâ€™s cynical Arab adaptation (Forget Hamlet), and John Updikeâ€™s haunting novel (Gertrude and Claudius).

A Selected Bibliography is also included.
Country USA
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 29924046
ReleaseDate 2010-10-28
UnitCount 1
UPCs 000393929582
EANs 9780393929584

Country	USA
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	29924046
ReleaseDate	2010-10-28
UnitCount	1
UPCs	000393929582
EANs	9780393929584

Hamlet (Norton Critical Editions)

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