Murder Most Foul - Hamlet Through the Ages (Paperback)

What is it about Hamlet that has made it such a compelling and vital work? Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages is an account of Shakespeare's great play from its sources in Scandinavian epic lore to the way it was performed and understood in his own day, and then how the play has fared down to the present: performances on stage, television, and in film, critical evaluations, publishing history, spinoffs, spoofs, musical adaptations, the play's growing reputation, its influence on writers and thinkers, and the ways in which it has shaped the very language we speak. The staging, criticism, and editing of Hamlet , David Bevington argues, go hand in hand over the centuries, to such a remarkable extent that the history of Hamlet can be seen as a kind of paradigm for the cultural history of the English-speaking world.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2014
First published:	February 2014
Authors:	David Bevington (Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago)
Dimensions:	217 x 141 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-870102-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare plays, texts
LSN:	0-19-870102-0
Barcode:	9780198701026

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