Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)

by WilliamShakespeare (Author), PhilipEdwards (Editor)

• Used

  Paperback
  1985

  $5.09

  Philip Edwards aims to bring the reader, playgoer and director of Hamlet into the closest possible contact with Shakespeare's most famous and most perplexing play. In his introduction Professor Edwards considers the possibility that Shakespeare made important alterations to Hamlet as it neared production. These would explain some of the differences between the two early texts, quarto and Folio. This edition offers a new synthesis of the two early texts, presenting variants in the collation. The commentary clarifies the rich and complex language, showing how each phrase contributes to the whole, challenging some passages which are still persistently misread. The stage history concentrates on the strange story of the continued mutilation of the text in the theatre.

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $3.25

  This book is part of the Everyman Shakespeare series, providing facing-page text and notes, a chronology of Shakespeare's life and times and a selection of critical and theatrical responses to Hamlet over the centuries. The Everyman texts preserve the way Shakespeare's lines were meant to be spoken as well as their meaning. Derived from the earliest authoritative printings, they retain original spellings and punctuations which preserve puns and and wordplay often lost. Sir John Gielgud, Zoe Caldwell, Ian Richardson, Jeremy Irons and other established actors, actresses and theatre directors have written forewards describing the plays in actual performance. John Andrews's introductions provide up-to-the-minute interpretation of the structure, atmosphere and content of each play and comment on sources and influences.

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $18.78