Download or read book Modern Hamlets and Their Soliloquies written by Mary Zenet Maher and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Modern Hamlets and Their Soliloquies" (Iowa, 1992), Mary Maher examined how modern actors have chosen to perform HamletOCOs soliloquies, and why they made the choices they made, within the context of their specific productions of the play. Adding to original interviews with, among others, Derek Jacobi, David Warner, Kevin Kline, and Ben Kingsley, "Modern Hamlets and Their Soliloquies: An Expanded Edition" offers two new and insightful interviews, one with Kenneth Branagh, focusing on his 1997 film production of the play, and one with Simon Russell Beale, discussing his 2000-2001 run as Hamlet at the Royal National Theatre."
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama written by A. D. Cousins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy.
Download or read book Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama written by A. D. Cousins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing nearly a century of drama, this is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy. Considering the antecedents of the form in Roman, late fifteenth and mid-sixteenth century drama, it analyses its diversity, its theatrical functions and its socio-political significances. Containing detailed case-studies of the plays of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Ford, Middleton and Davenant, this collection will equip students in their own close-readings of texts, providing them with an indepth knowledge of the verbal and dramaturgical aspects of the form. Informed by rich theatrical and historical understanding, the essays reveal the larger connections between Shakespeare's use of the soliloquy and its deployment by his fellow dramatists.
Download or read book The Soliloquies in Hamlet written by Alex Newell and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work defines the dramatic rationale of the Hamlet soliloquies in their dramatic contexts, thereby clarifying the tragic idea that organizes the play.
Download or read book William Shakespeare s Hamlet written by Sean McEvoy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Shakespeare's Hamlet (c.1600-1601) has achieved iconic status as one of the most exciting and enigmatic of plays. It has been in almost constant production in Britain and throughout the world since it was first performed, fascinating generations of audiences and critics alike. Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Shakespeare's remarkable play offers: extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history and performance of the text, from publication to the present annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading.
Download or read book William Shakespeare s Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays about William Shakespeare's play, "Hamlet."
Download or read book Avant Garde Hamlet written by R. S. White and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamlet stands as a high water mark of canonical art, yet it has equally attracted rebels and experimenters, those avant-garde writers, dramatists, performers, and filmmakers who, in their adaptations and appropriations, seek new ways of expressing innovative and challenging thoughts in the hope that they can change perceptions of their own world. One reason for this, as the book argues, is that the source text that is their inspiration was written in the same spirit. Hamlet as a work of art exhibits many aspects of the “vanguard” movements in every society and artistic milieux, an avant-garde vision of struggle against conformity, which retains an edge of provocative novelty. Accordingly, it has always inspired unorthodox adaptations and can be known by a neglected portion of the company it keeps, the avant-garde in every age. After placing Hamlet alongside “cutting edge” works in Shakespeare’s time, such as Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, chapters deal with the ways in which experimental writers, theatre practitioners, and film-makers have used the play down to the present day to develop their own avant-garde visions. This is a part of the uncanny ability of Shakespeare’s Hamlet to be “ever-now, ever-new.”
Download or read book Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hamlet A Critical Reader written by Ann Thompson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamlet remains the most-studied of all Shakespeare's great tragedies. This collection of newly-commissioned essays gives readers an overview of past critical views of the play as well as new writing about the play from today's leading scholars. The range of perspectives offered makes the book an invaluable companion to anyone studying the play at an advanced level. The final chapter on learning and teaching resources is particularly useful as a guide for further study.
Download or read book Performing Hamlet written by Jonathan Croall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamlet is arguably the most famous play on the planet, and the greatest of all Shakespeare's works. Its rich story and complex leading role have provoked intense debate and myriad interpretations. To play such a uniquely multi-faceted character as Hamlet represents the supreme challenge for a young actor. Performing Hamlet contains Jonathan Croall's revealing in-depth interviews with five distinguished actors who have played the Prince this century: Jude Law: 'You get to speak possibly the most beautiful lines about humankind ever given to an actor.' Simon Russell Beale: 'Hamlet is a very hospitable role: it will take anything you throw at it.' David Tennant: 'No other part has been so satisfying. It was tough, but utterly compelling.' Maxine Peake: 'Hamlet was a way of accessing bits of me as an actress I've not been able to access before.' Adrian Lester: 'Working with Peter Brook on Hamlet changed me as an actor, and for the better.' The book benefits from the author's interviews with six leading directors of the play during these years: Greg Doran, Nicholas Hytner, Michael Grandage, John Caird, Sarah Frankcom and Simon Godwin. Many other productions are described, from those starring Michael Redgrave, Alec Guinness and Paul Scofield in the 1950s, to the performances of Benedict Cumberbatch, Andrew Scott and Paapa Essiedu in recent times. The volume also includes an updated text of the author's earlier book Hamlet Observed, and an account of actors' experiences of performing at Elsinore.
Download or read book The Modern Language Review written by John George Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each number includes the section "Reviews."
Download or read book New Theatre Quarterly 40 Volume 10 Part 4 written by Clive Barker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-17 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Theatre Quarterly provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning.
Download or read book Hamlet and World Cinema written by Mark Thornton Burnett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals a rich cinematic history, discussing Hamlet films from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
Download or read book Hamlet written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book To Be or Not to Be written by Douglas Bruster and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Shakespeare and Audience in Practice written by Stephen Purcell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do audiences do as they watch a Shakespearean play? What makes them respond in the ways that they do? This book examines a wide range of theatrical productions to explore the practice of being a modern Shakespearean audience. It surveys some of the most influential ideas about spectatorship in contemporary performance studies, and analyses the strategies employed both in the texts themselves and by modern theatre practitioners to position audiences in particular ways.
