02903nam 2200565 a 450 991096749900332120251117074011.01-282-04025-197866120402521-84760-028-X(CKB)2430000000015688(EBL)3306124(SSID)ssj0000826845(PQKBManifestationID)11474924(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000826845(PQKBWorkID)10808931(PQKB)10079001(MiAaPQ)EBC3306124(Au-PeEL)EBL3306124(CaPaEBR)ebr10567351(CaONFJC)MIL204025(OCoLC)744939398(BIP)46847769(BIP)26592940(EXLCZ)99243000000001568820120613d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWilliam Shakespeare Hamlet /John LennardTirril [England] ;Penrith, Calif. Humanities-Ebooks20071 online resource (87 pages)Literature insightsDescription based upon print version of record.1-84760-084-0 Includes bibliographical references.pt. 1. Approaching Shakespeare -- pt. 2. Approaching Hamlet -- pt. 3. Actors and players -- pt. 4. Acts and devices -- pt. 5. Hamlet and Twelfth night -- pt. 6. Critics' corner.Aims to introduce students (including those with little or no prior experience of the field) to the worlds of Shakespeare and his theatre revealed in Hamlet. It begins by Approaching Shakespeare as utterly a man of the theatre, a professional actor before he was a playwright and a resident dramatist who knew intimately the actors for whom he wrote. It continues by Approaching Hamlet in that light, and as a revenge tragedy deliberately overloaded with complications. The middle chapters look in detail at the Actors and Players of the drama, starting with the Ghost and ending with the best actors in the world, and at Shakespeare s favourite Acts and Devices as deployed within it. A final chapter considers Hamlet and Twelfth Night, written and premiered in close succession, as an unexpectedly resonant pair, a surprisingly funny revenge tragedy and a surprisingly bleak revenge comedy that for the first audiences would have complemented one another. The annotated Bibliography includes the current major editions of Hamlet, the major film-adaptations, and a selection of both the best criticism and the most useful websites."Humanities Insights822.33Lennard John1803886MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910967499003321William Shakespeare4470733UNINA