num_pages: 416
description: Hamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes, making it one of his most widely discussed plays.Professor Hibbard's illuminating and original introduction explains the process by which variant texts were fused in the eighteenth century to create the most commonly used text of today. Drawing on both critical and theatrical history, he shows how this gusion makes Hamlet seem a much more 'problematic' play than it was when it originally appeared in the First Folio of 1623.
language: English
title: Hamlet
titlecomplete: Hamlet
characters: Horatio, Polonius, Cornelius, Gertrude, Hamlet, Marcellus, Francisco, Claudius, King of Denmark, Voltimand, Ophelia, Osric, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Reynaldo, Fortinbras, Laertes, Bernardo
genres: Read For School, Theatre, School, Drama, Plays, Poetry, Literature, High School, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 912387
places: Denmark
awards: awardedAt: 1325404800000
name: Grammy Award
category: Best Spoken Word Album
publisher: Oxford University Press