Hamlet : William Shakespeare
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Hamlet : William Shakespeare
（New casebooks）
Macmillan, 1992
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- : pbk
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Hamlet : contemporary critical essays
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-198) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hard ISBN 9780333541272
Description
What are the differences between traditional readings of Hamlet and those produced by modern criticism? What sort of questions does structuralist or feminist criticism raise? What issues are foregrounded by contemporary critics and how do these challenge our understanding of the play? This new collection on Hamlet brings together three traditional essays on the play and sets them alongside nine pieces of modern criticism that reflect the way in which contemporary discussion of Shakespeare is now heavily indebted to the ideas of structuralism, feminism, deconstruction, Marxism and new historicism. Complete with Introduction and a guide to Further Reading, the volume offers students a clear account of how the exciting developments in modern literary criticism and theory have influenced the current debate about Hamlet.
Table of Contents
- Tragic balance in "Hamlet", Philip Edwards
- the comedy of "Hamlet", Peter Davison
- poison, play, and duel, Nigel Alexander
- on the value of "Hamlet", Stephen Booth
- verbal presence - conceptual absence, James L. Calderwood
- a heart cleft in twain - the dilemma of Shakespeare's Gertrude, Rebecca Smith
- chaste constancy in "Hamlet", Marilyn French
- representing Ophelia - women, madness, and the responsibilities of feminist criticism, Elaine Showalter
- the woman in "Hamlet" - an interpersonal view, David Leverenz
- revenge in Hamlet, Catherine Belsey
- power in "Hamlet", Leonard Tennenhouse
- a thing of nothing - the catastrophic body in "Hamlet", John Hunt.
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: pbk ISBN 9780333541289
Description
What are the differences between traditional readings of Hamlet and those produced by modern criticism? What sort of questions does structuralist or feminist criticism raise? What issues are foregrounded by contemporary critics and how do these challenge our understanding of the play? This new collection on Hamlet brings together three traditional essays on the play and sets them alongside nine pieces of modern criticism that reflect the way in which contemporary discussion of Shakespeare is now heavily indebted to the ideas of structuralism, feminism, deconstruction, Marxism and new historicism. Complete with Introduction and a guide to Further Reading, the volume offers students a clear account of how the exciting developments in modern literary criticism and theory have influenced the current debate about Hamlet.
Table of Contents
Introduction.- Essays by: Nigel Alexander.- Catherine Belsey.- Stephen Booth.- James Calderwood.- Peter Davison.- Philip Edwards.- Marilyn French.- John Hunt.- David Leverenz.- Elaine Showalter.- Rebecca Smith.- Leonard Tennenhouse.
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