Hamlet: Paralell Text (The Shakespeare Parallel Text Series) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789160803 ISBN 13: 9780789160805

Publisher: Perfection Learning, 2004

Synopsis

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

About this title

Review:

An extraordinary achievement and milestone in the recent history
of version-based editing... Indeed, this is version-based editing at its
best. -- Eric Rasmussen, Shakespeare Survey

Hamlet's latest editors have undertaken a heroic task with great
skill and thoroughnesss -- Stanley Wells, The Observer

Stunning! There is absolutely no doubt about this being the text
to buy if you are studying the play at A Level. And the same stands for
those students who will be studying the play at university. This critical
edition gives the reader the Second Quarto Text (1604-1605), annotated with
intelligence and care, a wealth of historical and cultural references and a
survey of different critical approaches to the play. -- The Use of English, The English Association

The new Arden Hamlet is a pathbreaking edition, one that promises
to change irrevocably our understanding of Shakespeare's greatest play -- Professor James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

From the Back Cover:

THE CRITICAL EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE

With a wealth of helpful and incisive commentary, this edition of Hamlet
provides:

* The Second Quarto Text (1604-1605), edited to the highest standards of
scholarship

* Additional passages found only in the 1623 Folio text

* Detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text

* A full, illustrated introduction to the play's historical, cultural and
performance contexts

* An in-depth survey of critical approaches to the play

* A full index to the introduction and notes

* A select bibliography of references and further reading

This is a fully self-contained free-standing volume which includes in its
Introduction and Appendices all the supporting materials that a reader
would expect to find in an Arden edition.
It forms the core of a ground-breaking edition of three Hamlet texts. A
companion volume contains the fully annotated texts of the 1603 First
Quarto and the 1623 Folio.

Readers of both editions have, for the first time, a unique opportunity to
study the three surviving texts of Hamlet experienced by Shakespeare's
contemporaries, fully modernized and edited by leading scholars.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perfection Learning
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0789160803
• ISBN 13: 9780789160805
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3