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William Shakespeare's Hamlet, edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom

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William Shakespeare's Hamlet, edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-102) and index

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom

Series statement

Bloom's guides

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Critical views -- Harley Granville-Barker on dramatic expression -- E.E. Stoll on Hamlet's delay -- Harold Bloom on Hamlet's unfulfilled renown -- A.C. Bradley on the effects of Hamlet's melancholy -- William Empson on Shakespeare's first audiences -- Harold C. Goddard on Hamlet's individuality -- William Hazlitt on the character of Hamlet -- A.D. Nuttall on Hamlet's conversations with the dead -- Francis Fergusson on Shakespeare's reworking of his sources -- Charles R. Forker on the function of theatrical symbolism -- Bert O. States on the nature of Hamlet's melancholy -- John Wilders preface to "Hamlet" -- Arthur Kirsch on Hamlet's grief -- Meredith Anne Skura on Hamlet's theatrical self-consciousness -- John Lee on Hamlet's self-constituting selfhood -- Robert Weimann on English Protestantism and the Elizabethan stage -- Park Honan on the prince's world

Target audience

juvenile

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Hamlet

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