ARTHUR F KINNEY (ed.)

Hamlet

Critical Essays
Herausgegeben:Kinney, Arthur F.

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Produktbeschreibung

Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the international contributors to Hamlet: New Critical Essays contribute major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of Hamlet. This book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive critical analysis available of one of Shakespeare's best-known and most engaging plays.

Produktdetails

• Shakespeare Criticism
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 397g
• ISBN-13: 9780415410984
• ISBN-10: 0415410983
• Artikelnr.: 22542186

Autorenporträt

Arthur Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History and Director of the Massachusettes Center for Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusettes, Amherst, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

General Editor's Note Introduction, Arthur Kinney Part 1: Tudor-Stuart Hamlet 1. E. Pearlman: Shakespeare at Work: The Invention of the Ghost 2. R.A.Foakes: Hamlet's Neglect of Revenge 3. Philip Edwards: The Dryer's Infected Hand: The Sonnets and the Text of Hamlet Part 2: Subsequent Hamlets 4. Paul Werstine: The Cause of this Defect: Hamlet's Editors 5. Catherine Belsey: Was Hamlet a Man or a Woman?: The Prince in the Graveyard, 1800-1920 Part 3: Hamlet after Theory 6. Jerry Brotton: Ways of Seeing Hamlet 7. Terence Hawkes: The Old Bill 8. Ann Thompson: Hamlet and the Canon 9. Peter Erickson: Can We Talk about Race in Hamlet ? 10. Richard Levin: Hamlet, Laertes, and the Dramatic Functions of Foils Contributors Index

Rezensionen

"Hamlet: New Critical Essays offers stimulating essays that in their very variety demonstrate the play's endless renewability and ongoing fascination for us." Ronald J. Boling, Shakespeare Bulletin

"Now the great hero of dramatic literature. Arthur F. Kinney is a perfect choice to select and eidt the 10 scholars whose work is represented in Hamlet: New Critical Essays. This is a distinguished work in Routledge's Shakespeare Criticism Series." BHR LXV

"Hamlet: New Critical Essays offers stimulating essays that in their very variety demonstrate the play's endless renewability and ongoing fascination for us." Ronald J. Boling, Shakespeare Bulletin

"Now the great hero of dramatic literature. Arthur F. Kinney is a perfect choice to select and eidt the 10 scholars whose work is represented in Hamlet: New Critical Essays. This is a distinguished work in Routledge's Shakespeare Criticism Series." BHR LXV