| Description |
xviii, 443 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Bloom's Shakespeare through the ages |
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Bloom's Shakespeare through the ages.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references ( pages 413-426) and index. |
| Contents |
Series introduction -- Volume introduction / Harold Bloom -- Biography of William Shakespeare -- Summary of Hamlet -- Key passages in Hamlet -- List of characters in Hamlet -- Criticism through the ages -- Hamlet in the seventeenth century -- From Eastward Ho / Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston 1605 -- Chapters 2-5 from The Hystorie of Hamblet / François de Belleforest 1608 -- From A Funeral Elegy on the Death of Richard Burbage / Anonymous 1619 -- From The Diary of Samuel Pepys / Samuel Pepys 1661-1668 -- From "The preface to the play," in Troilus and Cressida / John Dryden 1679 -- From A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage / Jeremy Collier 1698 -- From The Antient and Modern Stages Survey'd / James Drake 1699 -- Hamlet in the eighteenth century -- |
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From Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear / Nicholas Rowe 1709 -- "On tragedy," from Letters Concerning the English Nation / Voltaire 1734 -- From The Prompter / William Popple 1735 -- From Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark / Thomas Hanmer 1736 -- From "Discourse on Ancient and Modern Tragedy" / Voltaire 1748 -- From Tom Jones / Henry Fielding 1749 -- From "The preface to Shakespeare" and "Notes on the plays," in The Plays of William Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson 1765 -- From A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy / Laurence Sterne 1768 -- From "A letter from M. Voltaire to the French Académie containing an appeal to that society on the merits of Shakespeare, translated from the original" / Voltaire 1776 -- From The Mirror / Henry Mackenzie 1780 -- From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1795 -- |
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Hamlet in the nineteenth century -- From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature / August Wilhelm von Schlegel 1809 -- "On the tragedies of Shakespeare" / Charles Lamb 1811-- "Mr. Kean's Hamlet," from Morning Chronicle 1814 -- "Hamlet," from Characters of Shakespear's Plays / William Hazlitt 1817 -- From Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1818 -- From " William Hazlitt" / Edgar Allan Poe 1845 -- "Hamlet and Don Quixote : the two eternal human types" / Ivan Turgenev 1860 -- From William Shakespeare / Victor Hugo 1864 -- "Shakespeare once more" / James Russell Lowell 1868 -- From The Birth of Tragedy / Friedrich Nietzsche 1871 -- "The elder Hamlet" / George Macdonald 1875 -- From "Hamlet," in A Study of Shakespeare / Algernon Charles Swinburne 1880 -- "Hamlet once more" / Matthew Arnold 1884 -- From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain 1884 -- "Hamlet at the Comedie-Française" / Anatole France 1886 -- "Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas" / Oscar Wilde 1897 -- |
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Hamlet in the twentieth century -- "The true Hamlet" / G.K. Chesterton 1901 -- "Polonius," "Ophelia," and "Hamlet" / Walter de la Mare 1902 -- From Shakespearean Tragedy / A.C. Bradley 1904 -- "Reading Hamlet" / Anna Akhmatova 1909 -- "Hamlet and his problems" / T.S. Eliot 1919 -- From Ulysses / James Joyce 1922 -- "The embassy of death : an essay on Hamlet" / G. Wilson Knight 1930 -- "Hamlet when new," from The Sewanee Review / William Empson 1951 -- From The Meaning of Shakespeare / Harold C. Goddard 1951 -- "The character of Hamlet's mother," from Shakespeare Quarterly / Carolyn Heilbrun 1957 -- "Hamlet," from Doctor Zhivago / Boris Pasternak 1958 -- "On the value of Hamlet" / Stephen Booth 1969 -- "Hamlet : letters and spirits," from Shakespeare and the Question of Theory / Margaret Ferguson 1985 -- "Introduction," from Hamlet (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) / Harold Bloom 1986 -- |
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"Hamlet and the art of grafting," from Shakespeare's Scepticism / Graham Bradshaw 1987 -- "Introduction," from Hamlet (Major Literary Characters) / Harold Bloom 1990 -- "Introduction," from Hamlet (Bloom's Notes) / Harold Bloom 1995 -- Hamlet in the twenty-first century -- From A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, 1599 / James Shapiro 2005 -- Bibliography -- Key editions -- Modern Hamlet editions -- Hamlet through the ages : an essential bibliography -- General bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
| Summary |
In Shakespeare's powerful drama of destiny and revenge, "Hamlet", the troubled prince of Denmark, must overcome his own self-doubt and avenge the murder of his father. Contains a selection of the finest criticism through the centuries on "Hamlet", as well as a biography on Shakespeare. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.
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Hamlet (Legendary character)
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Tragedy.
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| Added Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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Foster, Brett.
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| ISBN |
9780791095928 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0791095924 hardcover alkaline paper |
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