Hamlet Third Series

, by Shakespeare, William; Thompson, Ann; Taylor, Neil

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ISBN: 9781904271321 | 1904271324
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/21/2006

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This revised Norton Critical Edition of one of the series' most widely read texts is based on the second quarto (1604-05).

List of illustrations	p. xi
General editors' preface	p. xiv
Preface	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
The challenges of Hamlet	p. 1
The challenge of acting Hamlet	p. 2
The challenge of editing Hamlet	p. 8
The challenge to the greatness of Hamlet: Hamlet versus Lear	p. 13
Hamlet in our time	p. 17
The soliloquies and the modernity of Hamlet	p. 18
Hamlet and Freud	p. 26
Reading against the Hamlet tradition	p. 32
Hamlet in Shakespeare's time	p. 36
Hamlet at the turn of the century	p. 36
The challenge of dating Hamlet	p. 43
Was there an earlier Hamlet play?	p. 44
Are there any early references to Shakespeare's play?	p. 47
Can me date Hamlet in relation to other contemporary plays?	p. 49
Hamlet's first performances	p. 53
The story of Hamlet	p. 59
Murder most foul	p. 59
An antic disposition	p. 64
'Sentences', speeches and thoughts	p. 70
The composition of Hamlet	p. 74
The quartos and the Folio	p. 74
The quartos	p. 74
The First Folio	p. 78
The relationship of Q2 to Q1	p. 80
The relationship of F to Q2	p. 82
What, then, of Q1?	p. 85
Editorial practice	p. 87
Why a three-text edition?	p. 91
Hamlet on stage and screen	p. 95
Hamlet and his points	p. 95
Enter the director	p. 109
Hamlet and politics	p. 115
Novel Hamlets	p. 122
Hamlet meets Fielding, Goethe, Dickens and others	p. 122
Hamlet and women novelists	p. 126
Prequels and sequels	p. 131
The continuing mystery of Hamlet	p. 132
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark The Second Quarto (1604-5)	p. 139
Appendices
Folio-only passages	p. 465
The nature of the texts	p. 474
The early printed texts	p. 474
The early quartos	p. 474
The First Folio	p. 482
The quartos and folios after 1623	p. 485
Modern editors at work	p. 486
The written text	p. 487
The performed text	p. 493
The printed text	p. 494
The multiple text	p. 496
A common position?	p. 500
Our procedure as editors of Hamlet	p. 506
Determining transmission	p. 506
Editorial principles	p. 509
Lineation and punctuation	p. 518
Textual tables	p. 523
Editorial conventions and sample passages	p. 533
Conventions	p. 533
Proper names	p. 533
Act and scene numbers	p. 533
Commentary	p. 533
Textual notes	p. 534
Sample passages	p. 536
The act division at 3.4/4.1	p. 543
The editorial tradition	p. 543
The theatrical tradition	p. 548
Our decisions for the new Arden Hamlet	p. 551
Casting	p. 553
Music	p. 566
Abbreviations and references	p. 569
Abbreviations used in notes	p. 569
Works by and partly by Shakespeare	p. 569
Editions of Shakespeare collated	p. 571
Other works cited	p. 576
Index	p. 599
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