Hamlet: The State of Play
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Hamlet: The State of Play

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Hamlet: The State of Play

About this book

This collection brings together emerging and established scholars to explore fresh approaches to Shakespeare's best-known play. Hamlet has often served as a testing ground for innovative readings and new approaches. Its unique textual history – surviving as it does in three substantially different early versions – means that it offers an especially complex and intriguing case-study for histories of early modern publishing and the relationship between page and stage. Similarly, its long history of stage and screen revival, creative appropriation and critical commentary offer rich materials for various forms of scholarship. The essays in Hamlet: The State of Play explore the play from a variety of different angles, drawing on contemporary approaches to gender, sexuality, race, the history of emotions, memory, visual and material cultures, performativity, theories and histories of place, and textual studies. They offer fresh approaches to literary and cultural analysis, offer accessible introductions to some current ways of exploring the relationship between the three early texts, and present analysis of some important recent responses to Hamlet on screen and stage, together with a set of approaches to the study of adaptation.

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Yes, you can access Hamlet: The State of Play by Sonia Massai, Lucy Munro, Sonia Massai,Lucy Munro, Lena Cowen Orlin,Ann Thompson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literary Criticism of Shakespeare. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover page
  2. Halftitle page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. CONTENTS
  7. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  8. LIST OF TABLES
  9. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  10. PREFACE
  11. SERIES PREFACE
  12. Introduction Sonia Massai and Lucy Munro
  13. 1 Hamlet ’s Touch of Picture Kaara L. Peterson
  14. 2 Remembering Ophelia Theatrical Properties and the Performance of Memory in Shakespeare’s Hamlet Kathryn M. Moncrief
  15. 3 ‘Tragedians of the City’ Hamlet and Urban Exile Kelly Stage
  16. 4 Code Black Whiteness and Unmanliness in Hamle tDavid Sterling Brown
  17. 5 Character Fictionsin Hamlet Jay Farness
  18. 6 Q1 Hamlet and the Sequence of Creation of the Texts Charles Adams Kelly and Dayna Leigh Plehn
  19. 7 The Hamlet First Quarto Traces of Performance? William Dodd
  20. 8 ‘You May Wear Your Rue With a Difference’ Gertrude, Ghazala and the Sati in Haider Pompa Banerjee
  21. 9 ‘Most Eloquent Music’ (and Multiple Texts) The 2017 Glyndebourne Opera of Hamlet Neil Taylor and Ann Thompson
  22. INDEX