William Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

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Sean McEvoy
Taylor & Francis, 2023 M04 14 - 200 pages

William Shakespeare's Hamlet (c.1600-1601) has achieved iconic status as one of the most exciting and enigmatic of plays. It has been in almost constant production in Britain and throughout the world since it was first performed, fascinating generations of audiences and critics alike.

Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Shakespeare's remarkable play offers:



  • extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history and performance of the text, from publication to the present


  • annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself


  • cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism


  • suggestions for further reading.
 

Contents

Contextual Overview
Chronology
Critical History
William Hazlitt Characters of Shakespeares Plays 1817
Early Critical Reception
Modern Criticism
The Work in Performance
Hamlet On Film
Anthony B Dawson Shakespeare in Performance
Plot Summary
Further Reading
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