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The Connell Guide to Shakespeare's Hamlet
Professor Graham Bradshaw
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Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 4KHT; 4KL; DSGS; YQE. Category: (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 177 x 111 x 15. Weight in Grams: 152.
In the four centuries since Shakespeare's death in 1616, Hamlet has almost always been regarded as Shakespeare's greatest play. This is not surprising. As Barbara Everett has observed, Hamlet was not only the first great tragedy in Europe for two thousand years ; it was, and still is, the world's most sheerly entertaining tragedy, the cleverest, perhaps even the funniest . The character of Hamlet utterly dominates the play he so reluctantly inhabits to a degree that is rivalled only by Prospero in The Tempest. Even when he isn't on stage, speaking nearly 40% of the play's text, ... Read more
In the four centuries since Shakespeare's death in 1616, Hamlet has almost always been regarded as Shakespeare's greatest play. This is not surprising. As Barbara Everett has observed, Hamlet was not only the first great tragedy in Europe for two thousand years ; it was, and still is, the world's most sheerly entertaining tragedy, the cleverest, perhaps even the funniest . The character of Hamlet utterly dominates the play he so reluctantly inhabits to a degree that is rivalled only by Prospero in The Tempest. Even when he isn't on stage, speaking nearly 40% of the play's text, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Connell Guides
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907776601
SKU
V9781907776601
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About Professor Graham Bradshaw
Professor Graham Bradshaw is the author of Shakespeare's Scepticism, described by Harold Bloom as one of the half-dozen or so best modern books about Shakespeare and numerous other books and essays. But he is also a leading authority on Conrad, who he has studied for almost 50 years. A former Professor of English at Chuo University in Tokyo ... Read more
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