This collection brings together emerging and established scholars to explore fresh approaches to Shakespeareâs best-known play. Hamlet has often served as a testing ground for innovative readings and new approaches. Its unique textual history â surviving as it does in three substantially different early versions â means that it offers an especially complex and intriguing case-study for histories of early modern publishing and the relationship between page and stage. Similarly, its long history of stage and screen revival, creative appropriation and critical commentary offer rich materials for various forms of scholarship. The essays in Hamlet: The State of Play explore the play from a variety of different angles, drawing on contemporary approaches to gender, sexuality, race, the history of emotions, memory, visual and material cultures, performativity, theories and histories of place, and textual studies. They offer fresh approaches to literary and cultural analysis, offer accessible introductions to some current ways of exploring the relationship between the three early texts, and present analysis of some important recent responses to Hamlet on screen and stage, together with a set of approaches to the study of adaptation.
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List of IllustrationsSeries PrefaceIntroduction: Sonia Massai (Kingâs College London) and Lucy Munro (Kingâs College London) Chapter 1: Hamletâs Touch of Picture: Kaara L. Peterson (Miami University, USA)Chapter 2: Remembering Ophelia: Theatrical Properties and the Performance of Memory in Shakespeareâs Hamlet: Kathryn M. Moncrief (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)Chapter 3: âTragedians of the Cityâ: Hamlet and Urban Exile: Kelly Stage (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA)Chapter 4: Code Black: Whiteness and Unmanliness in Hamlet: David Sterling Brown (SUNY Binghamton, USA)Chapter 5: Character Fictions in Hamlet: Jay Farness (Northern Arizona University, USA)Chapter 6: Q1 Hamlet and the Sequence of Creation of the Texts: Charles Adams Kelly (Howland Research) and Dayna Leigh Plehn (Howland Research, USA)Chapter 7: The Hamlet First Quarto: Traces of Performance?: William Nigel Dodd (ADD, USA)Chapter 8: âYou must wear your rue with a differenceâ: Gertrude, Ghazala, and the Sati in Haiderâ: Pompa Banerjee (University of Colorado, Denver, USA)Chapter 9: âMost Eloquent Musicâ (and Multiple Texts): The 2017 Glyndebourne Opera of Hamlet : Ann Thompson (Kingâs College London, UK) and Neil Taylor (Roehampton University, UK)NotesReferencesIndex
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This collection brings together emerging and established scholars to explore fresh approaches to Shakespeareâs best-known play.
Provides a set of fresh analyses of Hamlet, informed by current developments in Shakespeare studies and beyond, and based on close attention to textual, stylistic and performative dimensions
Each volume in the series is an expedition to discover the âstate of playâ with respect to Shakespeareâs major plays. Featuring ten or more newly commissioned essays written by world-class Shakespeareans, each volume presents a detailed engagement with a single play, focusing on current issues in teaching, performance and research.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781350232747
Publisert
2023-02-09
Utgiver
Vendor
The Arden Shakespeare
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
U, 05
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272
Om bidragsyterne
Sonia Massai is Professor of Shakespeare Studies in the English Department at King's College London, UK. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor (2007), and the editor of collection of essays, including Ivo van Hove: from Shakespeare to David Bowie (2018), and of plays, including John Fordâs âTis Pity Sheâs a Whore (2011).
Lucy Munro is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Kingâs College London, UK. She is the author of Children of the Queenâs Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory (2005) and Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590-1674 (2013), and the editor of plays including Fletcherâs The Tamer Tamed and Dekker, Ford and Rowleyâs The Witch of Edmonton.