Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Denmark
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Hamlet and the Ur-Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Denmark
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Denmark
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Murder Most Foul
Author: David Bevington
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199599106
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
David Bevington demonstrates that the staging, criticism, and editing of Hamlet go hand in hand over the centuries to such a remarkable extent that the history of Hamlet can be seen as a kind of paradigm for the cultural history of the English-speaking world.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199599106
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
David Bevington demonstrates that the staging, criticism, and editing of Hamlet go hand in hand over the centuries to such a remarkable extent that the history of Hamlet can be seen as a kind of paradigm for the cultural history of the English-speaking world.
Hamlet: Poem Unlimited
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1573223778
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
In Harold Bloom's New York Times bestselling Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, the world's foremost literary critic theorized on the authorship of the historic play Hamlet. In this engaging new stand-alone work, he offers a full and warmly personal account of the play itself, explores its extraordinary impact throughout the history of western literature, and seeks to uncover the mystery at its heart.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1573223778
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
In Harold Bloom's New York Times bestselling Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, the world's foremost literary critic theorized on the authorship of the historic play Hamlet. In this engaging new stand-alone work, he offers a full and warmly personal account of the play itself, explores its extraordinary impact throughout the history of western literature, and seeks to uncover the mystery at its heart.
Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness
Author: Rhodri Lewis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691204519
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
'Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness' is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in the English language. By exploring Shakespeare's engagements with the humanist traditions of early modern England and Europe, Rhodri Lewis reveals a 'Hamlet' unseen for centuries: an innovative, coherent, and exhilaratingly bleak tragedy in which the governing ideologies of Shakespeare's age are scrupulously upended.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691204519
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
'Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness' is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in the English language. By exploring Shakespeare's engagements with the humanist traditions of early modern England and Europe, Rhodri Lewis reveals a 'Hamlet' unseen for centuries: an innovative, coherent, and exhilaratingly bleak tragedy in which the governing ideologies of Shakespeare's age are scrupulously upended.
The Sources of Hamlet
Author: Israel Gollancz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ambleto
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ambleto
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Looking for Hamlet
Author: Marvin W. Hunt
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0230611370
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A mysterious, melancholic, brooding Hamlet has gripped and fascinated four hundred years' of readers, trying to "find" and know him as he searches for and avenges his father's name. Setting itself apart from the usual discussions about Hamlet, Hunt here demonstrates that Hamlet is much more than we take him to be. Much more than the sum of his parts--more than just tragic, sexy youth and more than just vain cruelty--Hamlet is a reflection of our own aspirations and neuroses. Looking for Hamlet investigates our many searches for Hamlet, from their origins in Danish mythology through the complex problems of early printed texts, through the centuries of shifting interpretations of the young prince to our own time when Hamlet is more compelling and perplexing than ever before. Hunt presents Hamlet as a sort of missing person, the idealized being inside oneself. This search for the missing Hamlet, Hunt argues, reveals a present absence readers pursue as a means of finding and identifying ourselves.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0230611370
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A mysterious, melancholic, brooding Hamlet has gripped and fascinated four hundred years' of readers, trying to "find" and know him as he searches for and avenges his father's name. Setting itself apart from the usual discussions about Hamlet, Hunt here demonstrates that Hamlet is much more than we take him to be. Much more than the sum of his parts--more than just tragic, sexy youth and more than just vain cruelty--Hamlet is a reflection of our own aspirations and neuroses. Looking for Hamlet investigates our many searches for Hamlet, from their origins in Danish mythology through the complex problems of early printed texts, through the centuries of shifting interpretations of the young prince to our own time when Hamlet is more compelling and perplexing than ever before. Hunt presents Hamlet as a sort of missing person, the idealized being inside oneself. This search for the missing Hamlet, Hunt argues, reveals a present absence readers pursue as a means of finding and identifying ourselves.
Gertrude And Claudius
Author: John Updike
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141923237
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Using details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for Hamlet, John Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother. As only he could, Updike recasts a tale of medieval violence and presents the case for its central couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude's warmth and lucidity, Claudius's soldierly yet peaceable powers of command are seen afresh against a background of fond intentions and familial dysfunction, on a stage darkened by the ominous shadow of a sullen, disaffected prince.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141923237
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Using details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for Hamlet, John Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother. As only he could, Updike recasts a tale of medieval violence and presents the case for its central couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude's warmth and lucidity, Claudius's soldierly yet peaceable powers of command are seen afresh against a background of fond intentions and familial dysfunction, on a stage darkened by the ominous shadow of a sullen, disaffected prince.
Menaphon
Author: Robert Greene
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Srsly Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553535382
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
"William Shakespeare's tragedy told in the style of texts, tweets, and status posts"--
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553535382
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
"William Shakespeare's tragedy told in the style of texts, tweets, and status posts"--
Hamlet
Author: W. Thomas Maccary
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Often regarded as Shakespeare's most complex and difficult play Hamlet is also one of his most popular. It has been performed countless times on the stage and has been produced in many film and television versions. Even those who have never read the complete play or seen a performance know a few lines of To be or not to be and the image of a young man contemplating the skull of his dead friend Yorick. The play continues to attract the attention of high school students and scholars alike and has generated a tremendous amount of criticism. Because Hamlet exists as text, performance, and cultural icon, only through a study of the play in these three different dimensions can Shakespeare's complex work be appreciated. The purpose of this reference book is to introduce students and others first approaching Hamlet to the traditions of scholarship, criticism, and performance that it has inspired in four centuries. The volume gives close attention to the textual history of the play and to the historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts in which it emerged. Special attention is given to the religious, philosophical, and psychological aspects of the text. The book also treats Shakespeare's language, imagery, themes, and dramatic art, and it offers a summary of the play's critical reception. Throughout an attempt is made to visualize the play in performance, and constant reference is made to the conventions of staging in Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Often regarded as Shakespeare's most complex and difficult play Hamlet is also one of his most popular. It has been performed countless times on the stage and has been produced in many film and television versions. Even those who have never read the complete play or seen a performance know a few lines of To be or not to be and the image of a young man contemplating the skull of his dead friend Yorick. The play continues to attract the attention of high school students and scholars alike and has generated a tremendous amount of criticism. Because Hamlet exists as text, performance, and cultural icon, only through a study of the play in these three different dimensions can Shakespeare's complex work be appreciated. The purpose of this reference book is to introduce students and others first approaching Hamlet to the traditions of scholarship, criticism, and performance that it has inspired in four centuries. The volume gives close attention to the textual history of the play and to the historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts in which it emerged. Special attention is given to the religious, philosophical, and psychological aspects of the text. The book also treats Shakespeare's language, imagery, themes, and dramatic art, and it offers a summary of the play's critical reception. Throughout an attempt is made to visualize the play in performance, and constant reference is made to the conventions of staging in Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.