Murder most foul : Hamlet through the ages
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Murder most foul : Hamlet through the ages
Oxford University Press, 2014, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-219) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What is it about Hamlet that has made it such a compelling and vital work? Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages is an account of Shakespeare's great play from its sources in Scandinavian epic lore to the way it was performed and understood in his own day, and then how the play has fared down to the present: performances on stage, television, and in film, critical evaluations, publishing history, spinoffs, spoofs, musical adaptations, the play's growing
reputation, its influence on writers and thinkers, and the ways in which it has shaped the very language we speak. The staging, criticism, and editing of Hamlet , David Bevington argues, 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.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. Prologue to Some Great Amiss: The Prehistory of Hamlet
- 2. Actions That a Man Might Play: Hamlet on Stage in 1599-1601
- 3. The Play's the Thing: Ideological Contexts of Hamlet in 1599-1601
- 4. The Mirror Up to Nature: Hamlet in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- 5. The Very Torrent, Tempest, and Whirlwind of Your Passion: Hamlet in the Nineteenth Century
- 6. Reform It Altogether: Hamlet, c. 1900-1980
- 7. There is Nothing Either Good or Bad But Thinking Makes It So: Postmodern Hamlet
- NOTES
- FURTHER READING
- INDEX
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