This Arden edition of Hamlet,arguablyShakespeare's greatest tragedy,presents an authoritative,modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first publication. A timely up-date in the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare's death which will ensure the Arden edition continues to offer students a comprehensiveand current critical account of the play,alongside the most reliable and fully-annotated text available.
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781472518385Number of pages: 688Weight: 726 gDimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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(Thompson and Taylor) give us a text quite different from the edited versions that shaped debate for much of the past 400 years...There is intellectual consistency to (their) position.The editors'168 pages of introduction and 103 pages worth of appendices provide an unprecedented level of contextualization on matters cultural,textual,and theatrical.The scholarship...remains at the high standard expected from the Arden Series...Probably one of the most ambitious scholarly editions of the play to be published in the past century or so,if only for its attempt to present the textual complexities of the relationships between quartos and folio by printing all three early authoritative versions.
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