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Hamlet: The RSC Shakespeare

Autor Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 aug 2008
From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare’s most celebrated play. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview ofHamletin performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are interviews with three leading directors –Michael Boyd, John Caird and Ron Daniels – providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare’s career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended – as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed.
Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare’s works for the twenty-first century.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230217867
ISBN-10: 0230217869
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Ediția:2008
Editura: Macmillan Education UK
Colecția Red Globe Press
Seria The RSC Shakespeare

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction to the Play.- Introduction to the Text.- Key Facts.- The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.- Textual Notes.- Second Quarto Passages that do not Appear in the Folio.- Scene-by-Scene Analysis.- Hamlet in Performance: The RSC and Beyond.- Four Centuries of Hamlet: An Overview.- At the RSC.- The Director's Cut: interviews with Michael Boyd, John Caird, Ron Daniels.- Shakespeare's Career in the Theatre.- Shakespeare's Works: A Chronology.- Further Reading and Viewing.- Acknowledgements and Picture Credits

Notă biografică

JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and the editor ofThe RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A prominent critic, award-winning biographer and broadcaster, he is the author of several books on Shakespeare, includingThe Genius of Shakespeare(Picador), which was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC, as "the best modern book on Shakespeare." In June 2006 he was awarded a CBE by HM The Queen 'for services to Higher Education'.

ERIC RASMUSSEN is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, USA, and the Textual Editor ofThe RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He is co-editor of theNorton Anthology of English Renaissance Dramaand has edited volumes in both the Arden Shakespeare and Oxford World's Classics series. He is the General Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions project - one of the most visited Shakespeare websites in the world. For over nine years he has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for theShakespeare Survey.

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From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's most celebrated play.
 
This book includes:
 
*  An introduction toHamletby award-winning scholarJonathan Bate
*  The play – with clear explanatory notes on each page
*  A scene-by-scene analysis
*  An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre
*  A rich exploration of approaches to stagingHamlet
 
The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This book presents a historical overview ofHamletin performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading Directors –Michael Boyd,Ron DanielsandJohn Caird– so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible - a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death.

Caracteristici

  • An exemplary introduction toHamletby award-winning scholar Sir Jonathan Bate
  • The play – with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page
  • A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play
  • A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play
  • Photographs of classic or unusual performances illustrate different interpretations open to actors or directors
  • Interviews with three leading directors: Michael Boyd, John Caird and Ron Daniels
  • An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre
  • A key facts 'box' summarizing the plot, major roles, language and sources
  • A clear, single-column page design
  • Recommendations for further reading on key critical approaches and the play in performance, along with recommended viewing