Hamlet

Name: Hamlet
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ISBN: 9780791095928

ISBN-10: 0791095924

ISBN-13: 9780791095928

Edition: 2008

Authors: Harold Bloom, Brett Foster, Volume Editor

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Each title features: - A selection of the best criticism on the play through the centuries - Introductory essays on the development of criticism on the play in each century - A brief biography of Shakespeare - A plot synopsis, list of characters, and analysis of several key passages - An introduction by Harold Bloom.

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Facts On File, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/30/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 443
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Michael Parenti (Ph.D., Yale University) is an internationally known, award-winning author, scholar, and lecturer who addresses a wide variety of political and cultural subjects. Among his recent books are Waiting for Yesterday (2013), The Face of Imperialism (2011), God and His Demons (2010), and Democracy for the Few, 9th edition (2010).Harold Bloom was born on July 11, 1930 in New York City. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell in 1951 and his Doctorate from Yale in 1955. After graduating from Yale, Bloom remained there as a teacher, and was made Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1983. Bloom's theories have changed the way that critics think of literary tradition and has also…



Series Introduction


Volume Introduction



Biography of William Shakespeare


Summary of Hamlet


Key Passages in Hamlet


List of Characters in Hamlet


Criticism Through the Ages


Hamlet in the Seventeenth Century


1605-George Chapman, and John Marston. From Eastward Ho



1608-Chapters 2-5 from The Hystorie of Hamblet



1619-From A Funeral Elegy on the Death of Richard Burbage


1661-1668-From The Diary of Samuel Pepys



1679-From "The Preface to the Play," in Troilus and Cressida



1698-From A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage



1699-From The Antient and Modern Stages Survey'd



Hamlet in the Eighteenth Century


1709-From Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear



1734-"On Tragedy," from Letters Concerning the English Nation



1735-From The Prompter



1736-From Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark



1748-From "Discourse on Ancient and Modern Tragedy"



1749-From Tom Jones



1765-From "The Preface to Shakespeare" and "Notes on the Plays," in The Plays of William Shakespeare



1768-From A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy



1776-From "A Letter from M. Voltaire to the French Academie Containing an Appeal to That Society on the Merits of Shakespeare, Translated from the Original"



1780-From The Mirror



1795-From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship



Hamlet in the Nineteenth Century


1809-From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature



1811-"On the Tragedies of Shakespeare"



1814-"Mr. Kean's Hamlet," from Morning Chronicle



1817-"Hamlet," from Characters of Shakespear's Plays



1818-From Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets



1845-From "William Hazlitt"



1860-"Hamlet and Don Quixote: The Two Eternal Human Types"



1864-From William Shakespeare



1868-"Shakespeare Once More"



1871-From The Birth of Tragedy



1875-"The Elder Hamlet"



1880-From "Hamlet," in A Study of Shakespeare



1884-"Hamlet Once More"



1884-From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn



1886-"Hamlet at the Comedie-Francaise"



1897-"Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas"



Hamlet in the Twentieth Century


1901-"The True Hamlet"



1902-"Polonius," "Ophelia," and "Hamlet"



1904-From Shakespearean Tragedy



1909-"Reading Hamlet"



1919-"Hamlet and His Problems"



1922-From Ulysses



1930-"The Embassy of Death: An Essay on Hamlet"



1951-"Hamlet When New," from The Sewanee Review



1951-From The Meaning of Shakespeare



1957-"The Character of Hamlet's Mother," from Shakespeare Quarterly



1958-"Hamlet," from Doctor Zhivago



1969-"On the Value of Hamlet"



1985-"Hamlet: Letters and Spirits," from Shakespeare and the Question of Theory



1986-"Introduction," from Hamlet (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)



1987-"Hamlet and the Art of Grafting," from Shakespeare's Scepticism



1990-"Introduction," from Hamlet (Major Literary Characters)



1995-"Introduction," from Hamlet (Bloom's Notes)



Hamlet in the Twenty-first Century


2005-From A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, 1599



Bibliography


Key Editions


Modern Hamlet Editions


Hamlet Through the Ages: An Essential Bibliography


General Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index