William Shakespeare - Humanities-Ebooks
William Shakespeare - Humanities-Ebooks William Shakespeare - Humanities-Ebooks
A Note on the Author John Lennard took his B.A. and D.Phil. at Oxford University, and his M.A. at Washington University in St Louis. He has taught in the Universities of London, Cambridge, and Notre Dame, and for the Open University, and is now Professor of British & American Literature at the University of the West Indies—Mona. His publications include But I Digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse (Clarendon Press, 1991), The Poetry Handbook (1996; 2/e, OUP, 2005), and with Mary Luckhurst The Drama Handbook (OUP, 2002). He is the general editor of the Genre Fiction Sightlines and Monographs series, and has written Sightlines on works by Reginald Hill, Walter Mosley, Octavia E. Butler, and Ian McDonald. His critical collection Of Serial readers and other essays on genre fiction (2007), published simultaneously with this e-book, launches the Monographs Series.
Contents A Note on the Author Preface A note on the texts of Hamlet Acts and scenes in the Arden 3 Q2 Hamlet Part 1. Approaching Shakespeare 1.1 A Man of the Jacobethan Theatre 1.2 Companies—Actors—Stages—Audiences 1.3 Venus and Lucrece 1.4 Errors and Two Gentlemen Part 2. Approaching Hamlet 2.1 Revenge with Complications 2.2 A Play by Shakespeare Part 3. Actors and Players 3.1 Old Hamlet / the Ghost 3.2 Horatio 3.3 Claudius 3.4 Gertrude 3.5 Polonius 3.6 Laertes 3.7 Ophelia 3.8 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern 3.9 The gravediggers 3.10 Osric 3.11 Fortinbras 3.12 Hamlet 3.13 “The best players in the world”
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Contents<br />
A Note on the Author<br />
Preface<br />
A note on the texts of Hamlet<br />
Acts and scenes in the Arden 3 Q2 Hamlet<br />
Part 1. Approaching <strong>Shakespeare</strong><br />
1.1 A Man of the Jacobethan Theatre<br />
1.2 Companies—Actors—Stages—Audiences<br />
1.3 Venus and Lucrece<br />
1.4 Errors and Two Gentlemen<br />
Part 2. Approaching Hamlet<br />
2.1 Revenge with Complications<br />
2.2 A Play by <strong>Shakespeare</strong><br />
Part 3. Actors and Players<br />
3.1 Old Hamlet / the Ghost<br />
3.2 Horatio<br />
3.3 Claudius<br />
3.4 Gertrude<br />
3.5 Polonius<br />
3.6 Laertes<br />
3.7 Ophelia<br />
3.8 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern<br />
3.9 The gravediggers<br />
3.10 Osric<br />
3.11 Fortinbras<br />
3.12 Hamlet<br />
3.13 “The best players in the world”
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