Hamlet

Third Series

William Shakespeare, Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor, Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor

• Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781904271321
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781408142899
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Shakespeare Drama
• Index: Literature

The core of the ground-breaking, three text edition, this self-contained, free-standing volume gives readers the Second Quarto text (1604-5) and includes in its Introduction, notes and Appendices all the reader might expect to find in any standard Arden edition. As well as a full, illustrated Introduction to the play's historical, cultural and performance contexts and a thorough survey of critical approaches to the play, an appendix contains the additional passages found only in the 1623 text."The new Arden Hamlet is a pathbreaking edition, one that promises to change irrevocably our understanding of Shakespeare's greatest play."- Professor James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare'Hamlet's latest editors have undertaken a heroic task with great skill and thoroughnesss.' - Stanley Wells, The Observer"(The) new Arden Hamlet is quite simply the most comprehensive edition of the play currently available, a status I suspect it will enjoy for many years to come" - The British Theatre Guide"Stunning! There is absolutely no doubt about this being the text to buy if you are studying the play at A Level. And the same stands for those students who will be studying the play at university. This critical edition gives the reader the Second Quarto Text (1604-1605), annotated with intelligence and care, a wealth of historical and cultural references and a survey of different critical approaches to the play."- The Use of English, The English Association

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• General editors’ preface
• Preface
• Introduction
• Enter the director
• THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK - The Second Quarto (1604?5)
• Scene 1.1
• Scene 1.3
• Scene 1.4
• Scene 2.1
• Scene 2.2
• Scene 3.1
• Scene 3.2
• Scene 3.4
• Scene 4.5
• Scene 4.6
• Scene 5.2
• 1 Folio-only passages
• Appendices
• 2 The nature of the texts
• Textual tables
• 3 Editorial conventions and sample passages
• 4 The act division at 3.4/4.1
• 5 Casting
• 6 Music
• Abbreviations and references
• Abbreviations used in notes
• eCopyright