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Hamlet by Ann Thompson (King's College London, UK)

This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare'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 comprehensive and current critical account of the play, alongside the most reliable and fully-annotated text available.

Hamlet Reviews

[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. * Times Literary Supplement *
The editors' 168 pages of introduction and 103 pages worth of appendices provide an unprecedented level of contextualization on matters cultural, textual, and theatrical. * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *
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. * Sixteenth Century Journal *

About Ann Thompson (King's College London, UK)

Neil Taylor is Professor Emeritus at Roehampton University, UK. Ann Thompson is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at King's College London and a General Editor of the Arden Third Series, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Revised Edition Introduction Hamlet Appendices Index

Additional information

GOR008342301
9781472518385
1472518381
Hamlet by Ann Thompson (King's College London, UK)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2016-04-01
688
N/A
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