Hamlet: Language and Writing (Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing) - Hardcover

Prof. Dympna Callaghan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472520289 ISBN 13: 9781472520289

Publisher: Bloombury, 2015

Synopsis

Arden Student Guides offer a new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical and writng skills students need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare's texts. The books' core focus is on langauge: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare's rich and complex dramatic lanaguage, and the student's own critical language and how she can improve and develop this to become a critical writer. This lively and informative guide reveals Hamlet as marking a turning point in Shakespeare's use of language and dramatic form as well as addressing the key problem at the play's core: Hamlet's inaction. It also looks at recent critical approaches to the play and its theatre history, including the recent David Tennant/RSC Hamlet on both stage and TV screen.

About this title

About the Author

Dympna Callaghan is William Saffire Professor of Modern Letters, Syracuse University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloombury
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472520289
• ISBN 13: 9781472520289
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192