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Hamlet: A Critical Reader
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Hamlet remains the most-studied of all Shakespeare's great tragedies. This collection of newly-commissioned essays gives readers an overview of past critical views of the play as well as new writing about the play from today's leading scholars. The range of perspectives offered makes the book an invaluable companion to anyone studying the play at an advanced level. The final chapter on learning and teaching resources is particularly useful as a guide for further study.
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1
The
Critical
Backstory
John
Lee
Given
that
this
is
an
account
of
the
critical
history
of
Hamlet
in
English,
it
is
remarkable
how
European
an
affair
it
remains
in
main
outline,
and
from
how
early
on.
One
could
say
that
a
French-influenced
eighteenth
century
gave
way
to
a
German-influenced
nineteenth
century,
which
led
on
to
a
Franco-German
twentieth.
Sometimes
that
relationship
was
oppositional;
many
English
and
Scottish
critics
writing
on
Hamlet
in
the
eighteenth
century,
though
by
no
means
all,
aimed
to
repudiate
Voltaire’s
judgement
that
the
play
was
one
of
Shakespeare’s
‘monstrous
Farces’
(1733:
167).
The
nineteenth-century
relationship
was
more
companionate,
with
Goethe’s
and
Schlegel’s
accounts
of
the
play,
and
particularly
its
Prince,
providing
interpretations
which
English
critics,
now
increasingly
including
critics
from
North
America,
naturalized,
modified,
and
respectfully
argued
against.
By
the
time
the
twentieth
century
arrived,
and
with
it
the
profes-
sionalization
of
the
study
of
English
literature
in
particular
and
the
humanities
and
social
sciences
more
generally,
writing
on
Hamlet
could
be
said
to
have
become
European
in
its
spirit.
The
nineteenth-century
philosophy
of
Hegel
cast
a
long
twentieth-century
shadow
first
through
A.
C.
Bradley’s
Table of contents
- FC
- Half title
- Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series Introduction
- Notes on Contributors
- Timeline
- Introduction Ann Thompson
- 1 The Critical Backstory John Lee
- 2 Performance History Lois Potter
- 3 The State of the Art Neil Taylor
- 4 New Directions: Hamlet and Gender Catherine Belsey
- 5 New Directions: Hamlet, Cinema, the World Mark Thornton Burnett
- 6 New Directions: Being Hamlet Not Being Hamlet Frank McGuinness
- Resources Ann Thompson
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index