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Murder most foul : Hamlet through the ages / David Bevington.

Av:

Bevington, David M [aut]

Språk: Engelska Utgivning: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011Beskrivning: xiv, 236 p. ill. 23 cmISBN:

9780199599103
0199599106

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DDK-klassifikation:

822.33 22

Sammanfattning: What is it about Hamlet that has made it such a compelling and vital work? This book is an account of Shakespeare's great play from its sources in Scandinavian epic lore to the way it was performed and understood in his own day, and then how the play has fared down to the present: performances on stage, television, and in film, critical evaluations, publishing history, spinoffs, spoofs, musical adaptations, the play's growing reputation, its influence on writers and thinkers, and the ways in which it has shaped the very language we speak. The staging, criticism and editing of Hamlet, David Bevington argues, go hand in hand over the centuries, to such a remarkable extent that the history of Hamlet can be seen as a kind of paradigm for the cultural history of the English-speaking world.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Materials specified	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Musik- och teaterbiblioteket Magasin A	C13.401		1	Available		26201835389

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-219) and index.

What is it about Hamlet that has made it such a compelling and vital work? This book is an account of Shakespeare's great play from its sources in Scandinavian epic lore to the way it was performed and understood in his own day, and then how the play has fared down to the present: performances on stage, television, and in film, critical evaluations, publishing history, spinoffs, spoofs, musical adaptations, the play's growing reputation, its influence on writers and thinkers, and the ways in which it has shaped the very language we speak. The staging, criticism and editing of Hamlet, David Bevington argues, go hand in hand over the centuries, to such a remarkable extent that the history of Hamlet can be seen as a kind of paradigm for the cultural history of the English-speaking world.