Hamlet: The Arden Edition of the Works of William Shakespeare (The Arden Shakespeare) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903436672 ISBN 13: 9781903436677

Publisher: Bloomsbury Arden, 1999

Synopsis

The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.This edition of Hamlet provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts.

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Review:

"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" ""Hamlet"'s latest editors have undertaken a heroic task with great skill and thoroughness."--Stanley Wells, "The Observer "(UK)"" "Quite simply the most comprehensive edition of the play currently available, a status I suspect it will enjoy for many years to come."--"The British Theatre Guide" "Stunning! There is absolutely no doubt about this being the text to buy . . . 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

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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"

"Hamlet"'s latest editors have undertaken a heroic task with great skill and thoroughness. "Stanley Wells, The Observer (UK)"

Quite simply the most comprehensive edition of the play currently available, a status I suspect it will enjoy for many years to come. "The British Theatre Guide"

Stunning! There is absolutely no doubt about this being the text to buy . . . 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""

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: Bloomsbury Arden
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1903436672
• ISBN 13: 9781903436677
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Jenkins Harold