description: This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1974 text of the play edited by G. Blakemore Evans from " The Riverside Shakespeare" , along with critical essays that read " Hamlet" from contemporary feminist, deconstructive, new historical, cultural studies and psychoanalytic perspectives. The text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. Four of the six essays are new to the second edition, as is a selection of cultural documents and illustrations and an appendix on editing Shakespeare.
language: English
title: Hamlet
titlecomplete: Hamlet (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
characters: Francisco, Osric, Fortinbras, Marcellus, Reynaldo, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Claudius, King of Denmark, Voltimand, Polonius, Hamlet, Bernardo, Horatio, Laertes, Cornelius, Gertrude
genres: Read For School, High School, School, Theatre, Classics, Drama, Plays, Fiction, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 912895
places: Denmark
awards: awardedAt: 1325404800000
name: Grammy Award
category: Best Spoken Word Album
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan