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Description for Hamlet
paperback. Series: The Arden Shakespeare. Num Pages: 688 pages, 21 bw illus. BIC Classification: DDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first publication. A timely up-date in the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare's death which will ensure the Arden edition continues to offer students a comprehensive and current critical account of the play, alongside the most reliable and fully-annotated text available.
This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first publication. A timely up-date in the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare's death which will ensure the Arden edition continues to offer students a comprehensive and current critical account of the play, alongside the most reliable and fully-annotated text available.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Arden Shakespeare
Condition
New
Number of Pages
688
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472518385
SKU
V9781472518385
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Ref
99-99
About William Shakespeare
Neil Taylor is Professor Emeritus at Roehampton University, UK. Ann Thompson is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at King's College London and a General Editor of the Arden Third Series, UK.
Reviews for Hamlet
[Thompson and Taylor] give us a text quite different from the edited versions that shaped debate for much of the past 400 years ... There is intellectual consistency to [their] position.
Times Literary Supplement
The editors' 168 pages of introduction and 103 pages worth of appendices provide an unprecedented level of contextualization on matters cultural, textual, and theatrical.
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
The scholarship ... remains at the high standard expected from the Arden Series ... Probably one of the most ambitious scholarly editions of the play to be published in the past century or so, if only for its attempt to present the textual complexities of the relationships between quartos and folio by printing all three early authoritative versions.
Sixteenth Century Journal
Times Literary Supplement
The editors' 168 pages of introduction and 103 pages worth of appendices provide an unprecedented level of contextualization on matters cultural, textual, and theatrical.
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
The scholarship ... remains at the high standard expected from the Arden Series ... Probably one of the most ambitious scholarly editions of the play to be published in the past century or so, if only for its attempt to present the textual complexities of the relationships between quartos and folio by printing all three early authoritative versions.
Sixteenth Century Journal