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For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This Norton Critical Edition of Hamlet features a newly edited text based on the Second Quarto (1604 05). It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations and appendices providing important passages from both the First Quarto Hamlet (1603) and the Folio Hamlet (1623). Robert S. Miola 's thought-provoking introduction, Imagining Hamlet, considers this tragedy as it has taken shape in the theater, in criticism, and in various cultures. The Actors Gallery presents famous actors and actresses among them Sarah Bernhardt, Ellen Terry, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton, Kenneth Branagh, and Jude Law reflecting on their roles in major productions of Hamlet for stage and screen. Contexts includes generous selections from the Bible, Greek (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides) and Roman (Seneca) tragedies, Saxo Grammaticus, Dante, Thomas More, and Thomas Kyd. Criticism reprints a wide range of historical and scholarly commentary including English critics (John Dryden, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Johnson), European and Russian writers (Voltaire, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Leo Tolstoy), and Americans (John Quincy Adams, Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln). Recent scholarly writing takes various approaches to Hamlet mythic (Gilbert Murray), psychoanalytic (Ernest Jones), comparativist (Harry Levin), feminist (Elaine Showalter), and New Historicist (Stephen Greenblatt), among others. An engaging selection of Hamlet 's Afterlives includes the seventeenth-century Der Bestrafte Brudermord; David Garrick 's altered stage version; comic reflections by Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Tom Stoppard; and selections from Heinrich Muller 's postmodern nightmare (Hamletmachine), Jawad al Assadi 's cynical Arab adaptation (Forget Hamlet), and John Updike 's haunting novel (Gertrude and Claudius). A Selected Bibliography is also included. Hamlet, Shakespeare's most famous play, is now available in an all-new, illustrated Norton Critical Edition. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780393929584
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