This collection brings together emerging and established scholars to explore fresh approaches to Shakespeare's best-known play. Hamlet has often served as a testing ground for innovative readings and new approaches. Its unique textual history – surviving as it does in three substantially different early versions – means that it offers an especially complex and intriguing case-study for histories of early modern publishing and the relationship between page and stage. Similarly, its long history of stage and screen revival, creative appropriation and critical commentary offer rich materials for various forms of scholarship. The essays in Hamlet: The State of Play explore the play from a variety of different angles, drawing on contemporary approaches to gender, sexuality, race, the history of emotions, memory, visual and material cultures, performativity, theories and histories of place, and textual studies. They offer fresh approaches to literary and cultural analysis, offer accessible introductions to some current ways of exploring the relationship between the three early texts, and present analysis of some important recent responses to Hamlet on screen and stage, together with a set of approaches to the study of adaptation.

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Information

Publisher

The Arden Shakespeare

Year

2021

ISBN

9781350117747

Edition

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Literary Criticism of Shakespeare

Index

Literature

Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF TABLES
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
PREFACE
SERIES PREFACE
Introduction Sonia Massai and Lucy Munro
1 Hamlet ’s Touch of Picture Kaara L. Peterson
2 Remembering Ophelia Theatrical Properties and the Performance of Memory in Shakespeare’s Hamlet Kathryn M. Moncrief
3 ‘Tragedians of the City’ Hamlet and Urban Exile Kelly Stage
4 Code Black Whiteness and Unmanliness in Hamle tDavid Sterling Brown
5 Character Fictionsin Hamlet Jay Farness
6 Q1 Hamlet and the Sequence of Creation of the Texts Charles Adams Kelly and Dayna Leigh Plehn
7 The Hamlet First Quarto Traces of Performance? William Dodd
8 ‘You May Wear Your Rue With a Difference’ Gertrude, Ghazala and the Sati in Haider Pompa Banerjee
9 ‘Most Eloquent Music’ (and Multiple Texts) The 2017 Glyndebourne Opera of Hamlet Neil Taylor and Ann Thompson
INDEX