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Readings on Hamlet / Don Nardo, book editor.

Contributor(s): Nardo, Don, 1947- [(ed.)].
Series: The Greenhaven Press literary companion to British literature. Publisher: San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, c1999Description: 188 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 1565108361 (pbk.).Other title: Hamlet.Subject(s): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet | Hamlet (Legendary character)DDC classification: 822.33
Contents:
Foreword. - Introduction. - William Shakespeare: A biography. - Ch. 1. The plot, structure, setting, and wordplay of Hamlet. 1. The story told in Hamlet by Marchette Chute. 2. Hamlet and the Elizabethan revenge tragedy formula by Phyllis Abrahms and Alan Brody. 3. The play's courtly setting by R. A. Foakes. 4. Soliloquies and other wordplay let the audience share some of Hamlet's thoughts by John Russell Brown. - Ch. 2. The play's pivotal characters. 1. Hamlet: A man who thinks before he acts by Louis B Wright and Virginia A. LaMar. 2. The ghost: messenger from a higher court of values? by Philip Edwards. 3. Ophelia: Madness her only safe haven by Michael Pennington. 4. Gertrude: Scheming adulteress or loving mother? by Rebecca Smith. 5. Laertes: An impulsive but Earnest Young aristocrat by Marvin Rosenberg. - Ch. 3. Themes and ideas developed in Hamlet. 1. Grief that leads to tragedy by Lily B. Campbell. 2. The supernatural in Hamlet by Cumberland Clark. 3. A court and world infected by the disease of corruption by Rebecca West. 4. None can escape death, the "Undiscovered country" by Michael Neill. 5. Hamlet's Christian beliefs stifle his heroic impulse by Paul A. Cantor. - Ch. 4: Diverse ways of interpreting and staging Hamlet. 1. John Gielgud's interpretation of Hamlet sheds light on the play by Mary Z. Maher. 2. An actor's interpretation of Hamlet by Laurence Olivier. 3. A television interpretation of Hamlet by Mernice W. Kliman. 4. A stage production of Hamlet by Richard L. Sterne. 5. An Uncut film version of Hamlet by Richard Alleva. - Chronology. - For Further Research. - Works by William Shakespeare. - Index.
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"Works by William Shakespeare": p. 180-181

Foreword. - Introduction. - William Shakespeare: A biography. - Ch. 1. The plot, structure, setting, and wordplay of Hamlet. 1. The story told in Hamlet by Marchette Chute. 2. Hamlet and the Elizabethan revenge tragedy formula by Phyllis Abrahms and Alan Brody. 3. The play's courtly setting by R. A. Foakes. 4. Soliloquies and other wordplay let the audience share some of Hamlet's thoughts by John Russell Brown. - Ch. 2. The play's pivotal characters. 1. Hamlet: A man who thinks before he acts by Louis B Wright and Virginia A. LaMar. 2. The ghost: messenger from a higher court of values? by Philip Edwards. 3. Ophelia: Madness her only safe haven by Michael Pennington. 4. Gertrude: Scheming adulteress or loving mother? by Rebecca Smith. 5. Laertes: An impulsive but Earnest Young aristocrat by Marvin Rosenberg. - Ch. 3. Themes and ideas developed in Hamlet. 1. Grief that leads to tragedy by Lily B. Campbell. 2. The supernatural in Hamlet by Cumberland Clark. 3. A court and world infected by the disease of corruption by Rebecca West. 4. None can escape death, the "Undiscovered country" by Michael Neill. 5. Hamlet's Christian beliefs stifle his heroic impulse by Paul A. Cantor. - Ch. 4: Diverse ways of interpreting and staging Hamlet. 1. John Gielgud's interpretation of Hamlet sheds light on the play by Mary Z. Maher. 2. An actor's interpretation of Hamlet by Laurence Olivier. 3. A television interpretation of Hamlet by Mernice W. Kliman. 4. A stage production of Hamlet by Richard L. Sterne. 5. An Uncut film version of Hamlet by Richard Alleva. - Chronology. - For Further Research. - Works by William Shakespeare. - Index.

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