Hamlet : Critical Essays

ISBN-13: 9780815338765 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 256 str.

Arthur F. Kinney; Philip C. Kolin

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Arthur F. Kinney and his international team of ten Shakespearean scholars shine new light on the world's most famous tragedy. With essays covering a wide range of topics, from editorial and production issues to postmodern studies of race and gender dynamics, this volume offers cutting-edge analyses of the play. The refreshing insight and originality of the selections will surprise students new to Shakespeare as well as experts in the field. For anyone interested in what is arguably the most complex tale ever told, Kinney and his contributors have enlivened a fascinating, age-old debate. 'This fine collection of original essays will be valuable for undergraduates and their teachers alike. The essays range from Hamlet in Shakespeare's day to the play and the character in ours: we meet, for instance, Hamlet the woman, Hamlet the police, Hamlet in political life from then till now. And there's much more. Altogether welcome.' - A.R.Braunmuller, University of California, Los Angeles 'A collection of new essays on a play with so long a history of criticism, performance, and cultural resonance as Hamlet - it's daunting task But this volume measures up with ten essays that strike so many d

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General Editor's Note Introduction, Arthur Kinney Part 1: Tudor-Stuart Hamlet 1. E. Pearlman: Shakespeare at Work: The Invention of the Ghost 2. R.A.Foakes: Hamlet's Neglect of Revenge 3. Philip Edwards: The Dryer's Infected Hand: The Sonnets and the Text of Hamlet Part 2: Subsequent Hamlets 4. Paul Werstine: The Cause of this Defect: Hamlet's Editors 5. Catherine Belsey: Was Hamlet a Man or a Woman?: The Prince in the Graveyard, 1800-1920 Part 3: Hamlet after Theory 6. Jerry Brotton: Ways of Seeing Hamlet 7. Terence Hawkes: The Old Bill 8. Ann Thompson: Hamlet and the Canon 9. Peter Erickson: Can We Talk about Race in Hamlet ? 10. Richard Levin: Hamlet, Laertes, and the Dramatic Functions of Foils Contributors Index

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Arthur Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History and Director of the Massachusettes Center for Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusettes, Amherst, USA.