HamletThis edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely discussed of all Shakespearean tragedies. G.R. Hibbard argues, in a substantial introduction, that the presently accepted text is not, in fact, the most authoritative version of the play. Instead, he turns to the First Folio of 1623, Shakespeare's "fair copy" of the play that has been preserved for us in the Second Quarto. This revision of the play is more "theatrical" in the best sense of that word--it provides, as Shakespeare intended, a better, more practical acting script. Such changes as the omission of Horatio's account of the omens preceding Caesar's assassination, and Hamlet's on the drunkenness of Danes, give the play new momentum, and lend credence to Hibbard's claim that the familiar conflated text of Hamlet is a much more "problematic" play than it appears to have been in the First Folio. |
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Page 56
... stage picture of Hamlet standing with drawn sword over the kneeling King are our memories of four other stage pictures already presented to our eyes or imaginations . The first is the scene so vividly conjured up by the Ghost of ...
... stage picture of Hamlet standing with drawn sword over the kneeling King are our memories of four other stage pictures already presented to our eyes or imaginations . The first is the scene so vividly conjured up by the Ghost of ...
Page 77
... stage - direction rather suggests that ' Voltemar ' is an insertion , and the prefix is ' Ambass . ' In fact , it is almost certain that the parts of Marcellus and Voltemand were doubled in the performance upon a recollection of which ...
... stage - direction rather suggests that ' Voltemar ' is an insertion , and the prefix is ' Ambass . ' In fact , it is almost certain that the parts of Marcellus and Voltemand were doubled in the performance upon a recollection of which ...
Page 382
... stage . The scene is a carefully orchestrated exercise in public relations , designed by the King to lead up to his proclamation that Hamlet is ' the most immediate to our throne ' ( l . 109 ) . It is unthinkable in such circumstances ...
... stage . The scene is a carefully orchestrated exercise in public relations , designed by the King to lead up to his proclamation that Hamlet is ' the most immediate to our throne ' ( l . 109 ) . It is unthinkable in such circumstances ...
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Abbott action actors Amleth appears audience BARNARDO Caesar cited Claudius Claudius's Compare compositors copy Coriolanus courtiers Cymbeline dead death Denmark Dent doth E. K. Chambers edition elsewhere in Shakespeare England Enter Claudius Enter Hamlet Exeunt Exit eyes F divides father fear Folio follows Fortinbras foul papers Gertrude Ghost give haste hath heaven Henry i'th Jenkins killed King King's Laertes lines looks lord Love's Labour's Lost madness matter means mind mother murder nature night Ophelia Osric Othello pare passage phrase play Players Polonius Polonius's Prince Q2 divides Q2 reads Queen reason revenge REYNOLDO Richard II Romeo Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sb.¹ scene seems sense Shake Shakespearian soliloquy soul speak speech stage sweet sword tell theatre thee THEOBALD thing thou thought tion tragedy Twelfth Night Ur-Hamlet Voltemand W. W. Greg Wilson word ΙΟ