Hamlet The Texts of 1603 and 1623 (Arden Shakespeare Third Series) - Softcover

William Shakespeare

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904271804 ISBN 13: 9781904271802

Publisher: Arden Shakespeare (Cengage Learning), 2007

Synopsis

This volume gives readers the First Quarto text of 1603 and the Folio Text of 1623, modernised and edited to the usual Arden standard. As a companion to the Second Quarto volume, it will be of particular interest to scholars and students of textual history, or to anyone studying Hamlet at an advanced level. Both plays are edited and annotated and the introduction contains the fullest available stage history of the First Quarto text.

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Review:

"The Arden3 Hamlet is fascinating, and every Shakespeare scholar will want to possess it. The editors' approach is attuned to the relativism, pluralism, and skepticism of our time, and it is defended with remarkable thoroughness and intelligence....Thompson and Taylor's introductory material is in line with their treatment of the text...they are concerned to introduce the reader to the multitude of diverse critical approaches and to the variety within the developing theatrical tradition. They do this very well, and their discussion of Hamlet on stage and screen and of its offshoots in drama and fiction fills a notable gap...The full and consistently interesting commentary is also enlivened by snippets of information about performances...Thompson and Taylor have made an innovative and stimulating contribution to the Arden3 series." --Shakespeare Quarterly

"Hamlet...has been given a rebirth of sorts by editors Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor...puts the final pieces of the "puzzle of Hamlet" into place by publishing...updated versions of both the First Quarto and First Folio editions of the play. This wonderful ternion gives the serious students of Hamlet everything they need to delve deeply into the Dane. The textual annotations are extensive and worth the price of the book alone. None of the material is duplicated from the Hamlet: Arden Third Series, so this is all new commentary from two of the brightest minds in the world of Shakespeare... Delivers the quality you've come to expect from Arden." --PlayShakespeare.com

From the Back Cover:

THE CRITICAL EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE

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

- The First Quarto Text (1603) and the First Folio Text (1623), edited to
the highest standards of scholarship.
- Detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text.
- A full, illustrated introduction
- The fullest available stage history of the First Quarto Text
- A full index to the introduction and note
- A select bibliography of references and further reading.

Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623 is a companion to the core Arden volume
Hamlet: The Second Quarto Text (1604-1505). Together, these volumes make
up Arden's ground-breaking edition of three Hamlet texts. 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: Arden Shakespeare (Cengage Learning)
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1904271804
• ISBN 13: 9781904271802
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor