What Happens in Hamlet

Name: What Happens in Hamlet
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ISBN: 9780521091091

ISBN-10: 0521091098

ISBN-13: 9780521091091

Edition: 3rd 1959

Authors: John Dover Wilson

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John Dover Wilson's What Happens in Hamlet is a classic of Shakespeare criticism. First published in 1935, it is still being read today throughout the English-speaking world and has been widely translated. Hamlet has excited more curiosity and aroused more debate than any other play ever written. Is Hamlet really mad? Does he really see his father's ghost, or is it an illusion? Is the ghost good or bad? What does it all mean? Dover Wilson brings out the significance of each part of the complex action, against the background. His analysis of the play emphasises Shakespeare's dramatic art and shows how the play must be seen and heard to be understood. This is a readable, entertaining and…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1959
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/2/1951
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 380
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface to third edition


Preface to second edition


A letter by Mr Harold Child on some recent productions of Hamlet


Preface to first edition



The road to Elsinore: being an epistle dedicatory to Dr W. W. Greg



The tragic burden



Ghost or devil?



Antic disposition



The multiple mouse-trap



Hamlet's make-up



Failure and triumph


Appendixes


Notes to the second edition


Index of passages from Hamlet quoted or discussed


General index