Shakespeare William:
The Oxford Shakespeare
Hamlet
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom), 2008
Paperback, 416 pages
Size: 196x129 mm
ISBN: 9780199535811
ISBN-10: 0199535817
List price: £7.99
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The Oxford Shakespeare
Hamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes, making it one of his most widely discussed plays. Professor Hibbard's illuminating and original introduction explains the process by which variant texts were fused together in the eighteenth century to create the most commonly used text of today. Drawing on both critical and theatrical history, he shows how this fusion makes Hamlet seem a much more `problematic' play than it was when it originally appeared in the First Folio of 1623. The Oxford Shakespeare edition

