{"product_id":"hamlet-9781474257015","title":"Hamlet","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e is one of Shakespeare''s four great tragedies, studied and performed around the world. This new volume in \u003ci\u003eShakespeare: The Critical Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e  increases our knowledge of how Shakespeare's plays were received and understood by critics, editors and general readers.  It traces the course of \u003ci\u003eHamlet \u003c\/i\u003ecriticism, from the earliest items of recorded criticism to the latter half of the Victorian period. The focus of the documentary material is from the late 18th century to the late 19th century. Thus the volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century. The introduction constitutes an important chapter of literary history, tracing the entire critical career of \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e from the beginnings to the present day.The volume features criticism from leading literary figures, such as Henry James, Anna Jameson, Victor Hugo, Thomas Carlyle, Samuel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003egeneral editor’s preface preface introduction  1.     thomas davies, on Steevens’s and Malone’s editions and various 18th century theatrical performances, 1784 2.     william richardson, a philosophical analysis of Hamlet’s character, 1784 3.     walter whiter, on Hamlet’s melancholic disposition, 1794  4.     johann wolfgang von goethe, Hamlet’s character as analogue for Wilheim Meister’s own disenchantment, 1797   5      lord john chedworth, Glosses and personal annotation of early variorum editions (Johnson, Steevens, Malone), 1805   6      e.h. seymour, on collations of various passages from quartos as a means of making the ‘brightness of Shakespeare’s genius still more conspicuous’, 1805   7      francis douce, on the historical, cultural analogues and ‘anachronisms’ of the play, 1807   8      henry james pye, various commentary notes, 1807     9      john monck mason, various commentary on variorum editions, 1807   10      august wilhelm von schlegel, on Hamlet’s unheroic predisposition, 1808   11      samuel taylor coleridge, on Hamlet’s “unpractical being” and similarity with \u003ci\u003eWilhelm Meister\u003c\/i\u003e, 1810   12      charles lamb, on the difficulty of representing theatrically Hamlet’s ‘solitary musings’, 1811   13      samuel taylor coleridge, on Hamlet’s “irresoluteness” of his revenge in Act 3, 1812   14      samuel taylor coleridge, Hamlet’s use of ‘trivial objects and familiar circumstances’, 1813   15      william hazlitt, on Edmund Kean’s rehearsal of Hamlet’s ‘undulating lines’, 1814   16      andrew becket, on the importance of collation and conjecture in determining Shakespeare’s meaning, 1815   17      william hazlitt, on the complexity of \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e’s characters, with passing reference to Kemble and Kean’s flawed performances, 1817   18      samuel taylor coleridge, and Hamlet’s “flying” from reality, 1818   19      t[homas] c[ampbell] [john wilson] ‘Letters on Shakspeare – No. 1. – Hamlet.’, 1818   20      samuel taylor coleridge, \u003ci\u003eHamlet \u003c\/i\u003eand the development of his ‘philosophical criticism’, 1819   21      zachary jackson, presenting 700 passages needing penetration and restoration, 1819   22      anon. ‘Observations on Mr. Campbell’s Essay on English Poetry’, 1819   23      samuel taylor coleridge, and the ‘easy language of common life’ in \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, 1819   24       samuel taylor coleridge, on \u003ci\u003eHamlet \u003c\/i\u003eAct 1, 1819   25      samuel taylor coleridge, miscellaneous manuscript notes, 1819   26      augustine skottowe, various observations on scenes, 1824   27      samuel weller singer, and the dating of \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, 1826   28      hartley coleridge, on the complexity of reading Hamlet’s character, 1828   29      george farren, an appendix on mania and melancholy in Hamlet and Ophelia, 1829   30      thomas caldecott, a defense of Hamlet’s behavior as a means of enacting revenge, 1832   31      james boaden, a memoir of Garrick’s \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, 1832   32      anna jameson, Ophelia, ‘the snowflake dissolved in air’, 1832   33      nathan drake, Hamlet’s reticence to revenge, 1838   34      thomas carlyle, Shakespeare: \u003ci\u003ePriest of Mankind\u003c\/i\u003e, 1840   35      alexander dyce, a critique of Collier’s 1841 and Knight’s 1842 editions, 1844   36      joseph hunter, Shakespearean variants, 1845 37      henry n. hudson, the ‘universality’ of Hamlet’s character, 1848   38        edward strachey, Hamlet as a ‘man’ and the ‘triumph’ of his revenge, 1848   39        samuel weller singer, “the meaning of ‘Drink Up Eisell’ in \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e.” 1850   40        nicolaus delius, selected commentary notes, 1854   41        rev. arthur ramsay, and the ‘mystery of humanity’, 1856 42        henry hope reed, on Hamlet’s ‘meditative mind’, 1856   43        william maginn, on Polonius as ‘ceremonious courtier’, 1856   44        william rushton, on Shakespeare’s legal acumen, 1859   45        ivan turgenev,on the ‘turbulent sea’ and the ‘deep flowing tranquility’, 1860   46        charles cowden clarke and the ‘shrouding’ of Hamlet’s revenge, 1863   47        georg gottfried gervinus, the ‘conscientious’ Hamlet, 1863   48        b[rinsley] nicholson, Shakespeare and ‘sour and stale beer’, 1864   49        james henry hackett, reviews of contemporary ‘Hamlets’, 1864   50        victor hugo , Hamlet and “hesitation”, 1864   51        albert cohn, the German ‘Hamlet’, 1865   52        samuel bailey, on the empirical Shakespeare, 1866   53        john bucknill, ‘Ophelia, so simple, so beautiful, so pitiful’, 1867   54        thomas keightley, on individual passages, 1867   55        benno tschischwitz\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eon Bruno’s atomistic philosophy and \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, 1867   56        benno  tschischwitz, on Shakespeare’s philosophy and Giordano Bruno’s influence, 1869   57        p[eter] a[ugustin] daniel, notes and conjectures, 1870   58        george miles,\u003ci\u003e A Review of\u003c\/i\u003e ‘’Hamlet’. 1870   59        r[obert] g[ordon] latham, the ‘hopelessness’ of \u003ci\u003eHamlet’s\u003c\/i\u003e pre-cursors, 1872   60        mary cowden clarke, on Ophelia’s youth, 1873   61          karl elze, the French Hamlet, 1874   62          edward dowden, and mystery, the ‘baffling, vital obscurity of the play’, 1875   63          [francis] frank a[lbert] marshall, ‘the early life’ of Hamlet, 1875   64          hermann ulrici, Hamlet’s ‘double contradiction’, 1876   65          john bulloch, and the Globe edition emendations, 1878   66          j. o. halliwell-phillipps , on Hamlet’s ‘singular determination’, 1879   67          charles cowden clarke and mary cowden clarke, ‘unlocking the treasures of his style’, 1879   Notes Select Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408814547287,"sku":"9781474257015","price":123.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474257015.jpg?v=1730504308","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hamlet-9781474257015","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}