A Synoptic Hamlet: a Critical-Synoptic Edition of the Second Quarto and First Folio Texts of Hamlet: 75 (Oberta) - Softcover

Tronch-Pérez, Jesús

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8437053811 ISBN 13: 9788437053813

Publisher: Publicacions de la Universitat de Valčncia, 2002

Synopsis

A Synoptic Hamlet is an alternative response to the editorial problems of this multiple-text play. Like most critical editions, it presents the early texts in a manner helpful to the general reader by modernizing spelling and punctuation, and emending non-sensical readings. However, it does not hide the text's diversity by exclusively selecting readings from either the Second Quarto or the First Folio in order to reconstruct a single-reading version corresponding to the authentic Hamlet. Rather, it makes their significant variants immediately available in the line itself (offering alternative editorial interpretations of identical or similar readings at certain points). Thus the reader can have a direct appreciation of the divergence and similarity between these early texts from which the Hamlet of today is known.

Edition details

• Publisher: Publicacions de la Universitat de Valčncia
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8437053811
• ISBN 13: 9788437053813
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408