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001 2011934675
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008 110719s2011 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011934675
020 $a9780199599103
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040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aPR2807$b.B458 2011
100 1 $aBevington, David M.
245 10 $aMurder most foul :$bHamlet through the ages /$cDavid Bevington.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2011.
300 $axiv, 236 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [213]-219) and index.
505 0 $aPrologue to some great amiss : the prehistory of Hamlet -- Actions that a man might play : Hamlet on stage in 1599-1601 -- The play's the thing : ideological contexts of Hamlet in 1599-1601 -- The mirror up to nature : Hamlet in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The very torrent, tempest, and whirlwind of your passion : Hamlet in the nineteenth century -- Reform it altogether : Hamlet, 1900-1980 -- There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so : postmodern Hamlet.
520 8 $aWhat 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.
600 10 $aShakespeare, William,$d1564-1616.$tHamlet.
600 10 $aShakespeare, William,$d1564-1616$xStage history.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1202/2011934675-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1202/2011934675-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1202/2011934675-t.html