E a Copen, Julia Markus, Paul Jordan, William Shakespeare — Hamlet. An Authoritative Text, Intellectual Backgrounds, Extracts from the Sources, Essays in Criticism

Paperback; 2e druk, 1991; Ww Norton & Co; 314pp.; Paperback 1991 met fris en schoon binnenwerk. Recht boekblok, zonder leeslijntjes in de rug. Omslag gaaf, met uitzondering van een verschoten plekje voorplat linksonder. -- Conditie: Goed; The text of this Second Edition is based on the second quarto (1604-1605), with occasional references to the folio. In order to help the reader place the play in the proper historical context, Intellectual Backgrounds includes important readings on melancholoy, demonology, the nature of man and death. Pre-Shakespearean accounts of the story of Hamlet are also included with extracts from Saxo Gramaticus' Historica Danica and Belleforest's Histoires Tragiques . The editor has revised the Criticism section in order to accommodate significant interpretations published since the last edition. Among the critics represented are Samuel Johnson, Goethe, Coleridge, Hazlitt, D.H.Lawrence, T.S.Eliot, C.S.Lewis, Harry Levin, Rebecca West and William Empson.; Engels; ISBN10: 0393956636, ISBN13: 9780393956634