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To Be or Not to Be (Paperback)
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To Be or Not to Be (Paperback)
Series: Shakespeare Now!
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"Shakespeare Now!" is a series of short books of truly vital
literary scholarship, each with its own distinctive form.
"Shakespeare Now!" recaptures the excitement of Shakespeare; it
doesn't assume we know him already, or that we know the best
methods for approaching his plays. "Shakespeare Now!" is a new
generation of critics, unafraid of risk, on a series of
intellectual adventures. Above all - it is a new Shakespeare,
freshly present in each volume. Hamlet's "To be or not to be"
soliloquy is quoted more often than almost any other passage in
Shakespeare. Parodies and advertisements show us that invoking even
its first two words is enough to imply the rest of the speech -
though few of us can recall much about it. For we like to think we
know this speech, even as we like to think we know our Shakespeare.
"To Be or Not to Be" takes this most famous speech and unpacks it's
meaning to reveal the questions and problems it raises. Hamlet's
speech asks us to ask serious questions about knowledge and
existence. The book asks what close attention to Shakespeare's
words can tell us about what we don't and perhaps can't know. If
this speech concerns what isn't knowable, what else is it about? Is
it or is it not about suicide? Do the King and Polonius overhear?
If so, does Hamlet know or care? What must we bring to it, as
readers? What about as audience members: to what do we need to pay
attention? This book reads the individual words, phrases and
sentences of Hamlet's famous speech in 'slow motion' to highlight
its material, philosophical and cultural meaning and its resonance
for generations of actors, playgoers and readers.
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