Full Description
This Norton Critical Edition of Hamlet features a newly edited text based on the Second Quarto (1604-05). It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations and appendices providing important passages from both the First Quarto Hamlet (1603) and the Folio Hamlet (1623). Robert S. Miola's thought-provoking introduction, "Imagining Hamlet," considers this tragedy as it has taken shape in the theater, in criticism, and in various cultures."The Actors' Gallery" presents famous actors and actresses-among them Sarah Bernhardt, Ellen Terry, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton, Kenneth Branagh, and Jude Law-reflecting on their roles in major productions of Hamlet for stage and screen. "Contexts" includes generous selections from the Bible, Greek (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides) and Roman (Seneca) tragedies, Saxo Grammaticus, Dante, Thomas More, and Thomas Kyd."Criticism" reprints a wide range of historical and scholarly commentary including English critics (John Dryden, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Johnson), European and Russian writers (Voltaire, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Leo Tolstoy), and Americans (John Quincy Adams, Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln). Recent scholarly writing takes various approaches to Hamlet-mythic (Gilbert Murray), psychoanalytic (Ernest Jones), comparativist (Harry Levin), feminist (Elaine Showalter), and New Historicist (Stephen Greenblatt), among others.An engaging selection of Hamlet's "Afterlives" includes the seventeenth-century Der Bestrafte Brudermord; David Garrick's altered stage version; comic reflections by Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Tom Stoppard; and selections from Heinrich Muller's postmodern nightmare (Hamletmachine), Jawad al Assadi's cynical Arab adaptation (Forget Hamlet), and John Updike's haunting novel (Gertrude and Claudius).A Selected Bibliography is also included.
Contents
Acknowledgments List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Imagining HamletThe Text of HamletTextual NotesAppendix 1: Passages from Quarto 1 (1603)Appendix 2: Passages from the Folio (1623)The Actors' GalleryEdwin Booth, 1878, 1882Henry Irving, 1890Sarah Bernhardt, 1924Ellen Terry, 1908, 1932John Gielgud, 1937, 1963Richard Burton, 1954Laurence Olivier, 1982, 1986Kenneth Branagh, 1996Michael Pennington, 1996Jude Law, 2009ContextsThe Bible (c. 1250 BCE-57 CE)GenesisJudgesRomansGreek Tragedy (5th century BCE)Aeschylus ? The Libation-BearersSophocles ? ElectraEuripides ? ElectraOrestesSeneca (4 BCE-65 CE)AgamemnonThyestesSaxo Grammaticus ? Historica Danica (1180-1208)Dante Alighieri ? Inferno (c. 1315)Thomas More ? The Supplication of Souls (1529)Thomas Kyd ? The Spanish Tragedy (1592)CriticismJohn Dryden ? Preface to Troilus and Cressida (1679)Nicholas Rowe ? Some Account of the Life, &c of Mr.William Shakespeare, (1709)Voltaire ? Preface to Semiramis (1748); DuTheatre Anglais (1761)Samuel Johnson ? Notes on Hamlet (1765)George Steevens ? Letter to Garrick (1771); On Hamlet'sCharacter (1785)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ? Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship(1795)Samuel Taylor Coleridge ? Lecture on Hamlet (1812)John Quincy Adams ? Letter to Hackett (1839)Edgar Allan Poe ? Review of Hazlitt (1845)Abraham Lincoln ? Letter to Hackett (1863)Leo Tolstoy ? Shakespeare and the Drama (1908)Gilbert Murray ? Hamlet and Orestes (1914)Ernest Jones ? A Psycho-analytic Study of Hamlet (1922)Harry Levin ? The Question of Hamlet (1959)Elaine Showalter ? Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, andthe Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism (1985)Stephen Greenblatt ? Hamlet in Purgatory (2001)Kenneth S. Rothwell ? An Annotated and ChronologicalScreenography: Major Hamlet Adaptations and Selected Derivatives(2002)Tony Howard ? Women as Hamlet (2007)Margreta de Grazia ? Empires of World History (2007)AfterlivesDer Bestrafte Brudermord (early 17th century)Henry Fielding ? [Partridge and the Ghost] (1749)David Garrick ? [The Ending of Hamlet] (1772)Hamlet TravestiesJohn Poole ? Hamlet Travestie (1817)Francis Talfourd ? Hamlet Travestie (1849)Geroge Edward Rice ? An Old Play in a New Garb (1853)Charles Dickens ? [Mr. Wopsle's Hamlet] 1861Mark Twain ? [Huck Finn on Hamlet] (1885)Boris Pasternak ? Hamlet (1946)Tom Stoppard ? Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead(1967)Heiner Muller ? Hamletmachine (1979)Jawad al-Assadi ? Forget Hamlet (1994)John Updike ? Gertrude and Claudius (2000)Jasper Fforde ? Something Rotten (2004)ResourcesNER(01): WOW
