Hamlet
Subtitle: complete,authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives
By: William Shakespeare ; edited by Susanne L. Wofford.
Contributors: Wofford, Susanne L.
Series: Case studies in contemporary criticism
Publisher: Macmillan; St. Martin's Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London; Boston; NewYork
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616
Work titles: Hamlet
Description: This edition of Shakespeare's classic play presents the 1974 text edited by G. Blakemore Evans from The Riverside Shakespeare (complete with footnotes, glosses, and textual notes) along with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised for a student audience - that read Hamlet from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective, and a.

Bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach. The text and essays are further complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts to Shakespeare and Hamlet, a survey of critical responses to the play since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.
Notes: Bibliography.