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Hamlet (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series),Used
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This selfcontained, freestanding volume gives readers the Second Quarto text. In his illustrated introduction to the plays historical, cultural, and performance contexts, Neil Taylor presents a thorough survey of critical approaches to the play. He addresses the challenges faced in reading, editing, or acting a play with the depth of content and tradition that Hamlet possesses. He also establishes the historical and cultural context in which the play was written and explains the arguments about the merits and deficiencies of the First and Second Quarto and the First Folio. Taylor points to the many novelists, both men and women, whose work refers to or bears commonalities with Hamlet, to suggest an ongoing to need to resolve 'the continuing mystery of Hamlet' in print and on stage. An appendix contains the additional passages found only in the 1623 text, and other appendices on the editorial process, the traditions regarding the act division at 3.4/4.1, casting, and music are also included.Table of ContentsList of illustrationsGeneral editors prefacePrefaceINTRODUCTIONThe challenges of HamletThe challenge of acting HamletThe challenge of editing HamletThe challenge to the greatness of Hamlet: Hamlet versus LearHamlet in our timeThe soliloquies and the modernity of HamletHamlet and FreudReading against the Hamlet traditionHamlet in Shakespeares timeHamlet at the turn of the centuryThe challenge of dating HamletWas there an earlier Hamlet play?Are there any early references to Shakespeares play?Can we date Hamlet in relation to other contemporary plays?Hamlets first performancesThe story of HamletMurder most foulAn antic dispositionSentences, speeches and thoughtsThe composition of HamletThe quartos and the FolioThe quartosThe First FolioThe relationship of Q2 to Q1The relationship of F to Q2What, then, of Q1?Editorial practiceWhy a threetext edition?Hamlet on stage and screenHamlet and his pointsEnter the directorHamlet and politicsNovel HamletsHamlet meets Fielding, Goethe, Dickens and othersHamlet and women novelistsPrequels and sequelsThe continuing mystery of HamletTHE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK (The Second Quarto, 16045)APPENDICESAppendix 1: Folioonly passagesAppendix 2: Textual discussionAppendix 3: Editorial conventions, sample edited passages and a comparison of scenes across the three textsAppendix 4: The act division at 3.4/4.1Appendix 5: CastingAppendix 6: MusicAbbreviations and referencesAbbreviations used in notesWorks by and partly by ShakespeareEditions of Shakespeare collatedOther works citedIndex
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