Table of Contents

SERIES INTRODUCTION
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
TIMELINE

Introduction ANN THOMPSON
1. The Critical Backstory JOHN LEE
2. Performance History LOIS POTTER
3. Hamlet: The State of the Art NEIL TAYLOR
4. New Directions: Hamlet and Gender CATHERINE BELSEY
5. New Directions: Hamlet, Cinema, the World MARK THORNTON BURNETT
6. New Directions: Being Hamlet Not Being Hamlet FRANK McGUINNESS

RESOURCES ANN THOMPSON
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX

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A collection of new essays by leading international scholars on one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, Hamlet.

About the Author

Neil Taylor is Professor Emeritus, University of Roehampton, UK and co-editor of The Arden Shakespeare Third Series Hamlet and Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623

Ann Thompson is Professor Emeritus, King's College London, UK and co-editor of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series Hamlet and Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623

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I’m very impressed by this series. I think its success lies in part in the general editors’ wise selection of volume editors who are both intellectually open-minded and capable of assembling strong, diverse teams of contributors.
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