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9781472571373 1472571371 Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key Features include: Essays on the play's critical and performance history, A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play, A selection of new essays by leading scholars, A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and online. To explore the critical and performance history of Hamlet is to engage with some of the most important moments in the intellectual, political and religious life of Europe, the English-speaking world and beyond over the last 400 years. From its complicated textual origins and its uneasy reputation for eccentricity in the eighteenth century, Hamlet has become a formidable global phenomenon, performed, read, studied, rewritten, adapted, illustrated and filmed more than any other of Shakespeare's plays. The essay in this volume help readers to understand how this phenomenon has developed and how it is still developing: what does Hamlet mean, and what does it mean to us? Book jacket., Hamlet remains the most-studied of all Shakespeare's great tragedies. This collection of newly-commissioned essays gives readers an overview of past critical views of the play as well as new writing about the play from today's leading scholars. The range of perspectives offered makes the book an invaluable companion to anyone studying the play at an advanced level. The final chapter on learning and teaching resources is particularly useful as a guide for further study.
9781472571373 1472571371 Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key Features include: Essays on the play's critical and performance history, A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play, A selection of new essays by leading scholars, A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and online. To explore the critical and performance history of Hamlet is to engage with some of the most important moments in the intellectual, political and religious life of Europe, the English-speaking world and beyond over the last 400 years. From its complicated textual origins and its uneasy reputation for eccentricity in the eighteenth century, Hamlet has become a formidable global phenomenon, performed, read, studied, rewritten, adapted, illustrated and filmed more than any other of Shakespeare's plays. The essay in this volume help readers to understand how this phenomenon has developed and how it is still developing: what does Hamlet mean, and what does it mean to us? Book jacket., Hamlet remains the most-studied of all Shakespeare's great tragedies. This collection of newly-commissioned essays gives readers an overview of past critical views of the play as well as new writing about the play from today's leading scholars. The range of perspectives offered makes the book an invaluable companion to anyone studying the play at an advanced level. The final chapter on learning and teaching resources is particularly useful as a guide for further study.