LEADER 02823nam 22006251 450 001 9910461610403321 005 20200514202323.0 010 $a1-4725-5553-8 010 $a1-283-12250-2 010 $a9786613122506 010 $a1-4411-2500-0 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472555533 035 $a(CKB)2670000000092803 035 $a(EBL)711024 035 $a(OCoLC)727649534 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000526152 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11335037 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000526152 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10522308 035 $a(PQKB)11164775 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC711024 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL711024 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10472131 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL312250 035 $a(OCoLC)1058794090 035 $a(UkLoBP)bpp09257253 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000092803 100 $a20140929d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTo be or not to be /$fDouglas Bruster 210 1$aLondon :$cContinuum,$d2007. 215 $a1 online resource (125 p.) 225 1 $aShakespeare now! 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8264-8997-4 311 $a0-8264-8998-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [105]-106) index. 327 $aCover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; General Editors' Preface; 1 In the Shakespeare Museum; 2 What are the Questions?; 3 There's the Rub; 4 How Does it Mean? (The Speech as Poem); 5 The Name of Action (The Speech in Context); 6 Not One Speech but Three, or There's the Point'; 7 Consummation (Some Conclusions); 8 Acknowledgments and Further Reading; Index 330 $a"Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy is quoted more often than any other passage in Shakespeare. It is arguably the most famous speech in the Western world - though few of us can remember much about it. This book carefully unpacks the individual words, phrases and sentences of Hamlet's soliloquy in order to reveal how and why it has achieved its remarkable hold on our culture. Hamlet's speech asks us to ask some of the most serious questions there are regarding knowledge and existence. In it, Shakespeare also expands the limits of the English language. Douglas Bruster therefore reads Hamlet's famous speech in "slow motion" to highlight its material, philosophical and cultural meaning and its resonance for generations of actors, playgoers and readers."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 410 0$aShakespeare now! 606 $aSoliloquy 615 0$aSoliloquy. 676 $a822.33 700 $aBruster$b Douglas$0318126 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461610403321 996 $aTo be or not to be$92246112 997 $aUNINA