Hamlet: The State of Play
by Professor Sonia Massai, Lucy Munro
This collection brings together emerging and established scholars to explore fresh approaches to Shakespeare's best-known play. Hamlet has often served as a testing ground for innovative readings and new approaches. Its unique textual history – surviving as it does in three substantially different early versions – means that it offers an especially complex and intriguing case-study for histories of early modern publishing and the relationship between page and stage. Similarly, its long history of stage and screen revival, creative appropriation and critical commentary offer rich materials for various forms of scholarship.The essays in Hamlet: The State of Play explore the play from a variety of different angles, drawing on contemporary approaches to gender, sexuality, race, the history of emotions, memory, visual and material cultures, performativity, theories and histories of place, and textual studies. They offer fresh approaches to literary and cultural analysis, offer accessible introductions to some current ways of exploring the relationship between the three early texts, and present analysis of some important recent responses to Hamlet on screen and stage, together with a set of approaches to the study of adaptation.
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Author Biography
Sonia Massai is Professor of Shakespeare Studies in the English Department at King's College London, UK. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor (2007), and the editor of collection of essays, including Ivo van Hove: from Shakespeare to David Bowie (2018), and of plays, including John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (2011).Lucy Munro is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at King's College London, UK. She is the author of Children of the Queen's Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory (2005) and Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590-1674 (2013), and the editor of plays including Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed and Dekker, Ford and Rowley's The Witch of Edmonton.
Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsSeries PrefaceIntroduction: Sonia Massai (King's College London) and Lucy Munro (King's College London)Chapter 1: Hamlet's Touch of Picture: Kaara L. Peterson (Miami University, USA)Chapter 2: Remembering Ophelia: Theatrical Properties and the Performance of Memory in Shakespeare's Hamlet: Kathryn M. Moncrief (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)Chapter 3: "Tragedians of the City": Hamlet and Urban Exile: Kelly Stage (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA)Chapter 4: Code Black: Whiteness and Unmanliness in Hamlet: David Sterling Brown (SUNY Binghamton, USA)Chapter 5: Character Fictions in Hamlet: Jay Farness (Northern Arizona University, USA)Chapter 6: Q1 Hamlet and the Sequence of Creation of the Texts: Charles Adams Kelly (Howland Research) and Dayna Leigh Plehn (Howland Research, USA)Chapter 7: The Hamlet First Quarto: Traces of Performance?: William Nigel Dodd (ADD, USA)Chapter 8: "You must wear your rue with a difference": Gertrude, Ghazala, and the Sati in Haider': Pompa Banerjee (University of Colorado, Denver, USA)Chapter 9: 'Most Eloquent Music' (and Multiple Texts): The 2017 Glyndebourne Opera of Hamlet : Ann Thompson (King's College London, UK) and Neil Taylor (Roehampton University, UK)NotesReferencesIndex
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This collection brings together emerging and established scholars to explore fresh approaches to Shakespeare's best-known play.
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This collection brings together emerging and established scholars to explore fresh approaches to Shakespeare's best-known play.
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Provides a set of fresh analyses of Hamlet , informed by current developments in Shakespeare studies and beyond, and based on close attention to textual, stylistic and performative dimensions
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