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From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's most celebrated play. This book includes: * An introduction to Hamlet by award-winning scholar Jonathan 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 staging Hamlet The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This book presents a historical overview of Hamlet in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading Directors - Michael Boyd, Ron Daniels and John 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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: plays & playwrights

• Full title: Hamlet
• Author: W Shakespeare
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780230217874
• ISBN: 0230217877
• ID: 04039887
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 276 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 130 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. September 2008

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