内容简介
The revised Norton Critical Edition of Shakespeare's masterpiece again bases its text on the second quarto (1604-5). When necessary, the editor has also drawn upon the folio, recording all departures from the quarto in the Textual Notes. Punctuation and stage directions for the play have been refined, and the textual annotations have been both revised and expanded.
The "Intellectual Backgrounds" and "Extracts from the Sources" sections remain as germane as ever and are, therefore, unchanged. In order to help the reader place Hamlet in the proper historical context, "Intellectual Backgrounds" includes important readings on melancholy, demonology, the nature of man, and death. Represented are works by Peter de la Primaudaye, Timothy Bright, Lewes Lavater, G. Gifford, Michel de Montaigne, and Hieronymous Cardanus. "Extracts from the Sources" offers pre-Shakespearean accounts of the story of Hamlet with substantial extracts from Saxo Grammaticus's Historia Danica and Belieforest's Histoires Tragiques.
The "Intellectual Backgrounds" and "Extracts from the Sources" sections remain as germane as ever and are, therefore, unchanged. In order to help the reader place Hamlet in the proper historical context, "Intellectual Backgrounds" includes important readings on melancholy, demonology, the nature of man, and death. Represented are works by Peter de la Primaudaye, Timothy Bright, Lewes Lavater, G. Gifford, Michel de Montaigne, and Hieronymous Cardanus. "Extracts from the Sources" offers pre-Shakespearean accounts of the story of Hamlet with substantial extracts from Saxo Grammaticus's Historia Danica and Belieforest's Histoires Tragiques.