Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Author(s)

• Shakespeare, William
• Edwards, Philip

Bibliographic Information

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

[William Shakespeare] ; edited by Philip Edwards

（The new Cambridge Shakespeare）

Cambridge University Press, 2003

Updated ed

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-258)

First published 1985

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of Hamlet, edited by Philip Edwards, brings readers, playgoers and directors into the closest possible contact with Shakespeare's most famous and perplexing play. In the introduction, Edwards explores the possibility that Shakespeare made important alterations to Hamlet as it neared production, creating differences between the two early texts, quarto and folio. Edwards concentrates on essentials, dealing succinctly with the huge volume of commentary and controversy that the play has provoked, and offers a way forward that enables us to recognise Hamlet's full tragic energy. In a new supplementary section, Robert Hapgood discusses recent stage, film and critical interpretations of the play.

Table of Contents

• Introduction, with new section on recent stage and critical interpretations by Robert Hapgood
• Note on the text
• List of characters
• The play
• Reading list.

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Details

• NCID: BA61505875
• ISBN:
  • 9780521825450
  • 9780521532525
• LCCN: 84017517
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, U.K.
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 258 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 822.33
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Princes -- Denmark
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00019705