Hamlet (Norton Critical Editions)
This revised Norton Critical Edition of one of the series' most widely read texts is based on the second quarto (1604-05). Where necessary, the editor has also drawn from the folio text, recording all departures from the quarto in the Textual Notes. Punctuation and stage directions for the play have been refined, and textual annotations have been revised and expanded. The "Intellectual Backgrounds" and "Extracts from the Sources" sections, both highly praised, remain as germane as ever....
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This revised Norton Critical Edition of one of the series' most widely read texts is based on the second quarto (1604-05). Where necessary, the editor has also drawn from the folio text, recording all departures from the quarto in the Textual Notes. Punctuation and stage directions for the play have been refined, and textual annotations have been revised and expanded.
About the SeriesAbout This VolumePt. 1Hamlet: The Complete TextIntroduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts3The Complete Text27Note on the Text154Textual Notes156Pt. 2Hamlet: A Case Study in Contemporary CriticismA Critical History of Hamlet181Feminist Criticism and Hamlet208What Is Feminist Criticism?208Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography215A Feminist Perspective: Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism220Psychoanalytic Criticism and Hamlet241What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism?241Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography251A Psychoanalytic Perspective: "Man and Wife Is One Flesh": Hamlet and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body256Deconstruction and Hamlet283What Is Deconstruction?283Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography293A Deconstructionist Perspective: Hamlet: Giving Up the Ghost297Marxist Criticism and Hamlet332What Is Marxist Criticism?332Marxist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography345A Marxist Perspective: "Funeral-Bak'd Meats": Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Hamlet348The New Historicism and Hamlet368What Is the New Historicism368The New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography377A New Historicist Perspective: "Suche Strange Desygns": Madness, Subjectivity, and Treason in Hamlet and Elizabethan Culture380Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms403About the Contributors416
