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Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
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Editorial Reviews (Courtesy of Amazon.com)
? Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
? Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
? Scene-by-scene plot summaries
? A key to famous lines and phrases
? An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
? An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
? Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by Michael Neill
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu.
Table of Contents (Courtesy of Barnes & Noble.com)
| About the Series | ||
| About This Volume | ||
| Pt. 1 | Hamlet: The Complete Text | |
| Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts | 3 | |
| The Complete Text | 27 | |
| Note on the Text | 154 | |
| Textual Notes | 156 | |
| Pt. 2 | Hamlet: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism | |
| A Critical History of Hamlet | 181 | |
| Feminist Criticism and Hamlet | 208 | |
| What Is Feminist Criticism? | 208 | |
| Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography | 215 | |
| A Feminist Perspective: Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism | 220 | |
| Psychoanalytic Criticism and Hamlet | 241 | |
| What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism? | 241 | |
| Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography | 251 | |
| A Psychoanalytic Perspective: "Man and Wife Is One Flesh": Hamlet and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body | 256 | |
| Deconstruction and Hamlet | 283 | |
| What Is Deconstruction? | 283 | |
| Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography | 293 | |
| A Deconstructionist Perspective: Hamlet: Giving Up the Ghost | 297 | |
| Marxist Criticism and Hamlet | 332 | |
| What Is Marxist Criticism? | 332 | |
| Marxist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography | 345 | |
| A Marxist Perspective: "Funeral-Bak'd Meats": Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Hamlet | 348 | |
| The New Historicism and Hamlet | 368 | |
| What Is the New Historicism | 368 | |
| The New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography | 377 | |
| A New Historicist Perspective: "Suche Strange Desygns": Madness, Subjectivity, and Treason in Hamlet and Elizabethan Culture | 380 | |
| Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms | 403 | |
| About the Contributors | 416 |