Format:
1 Online-Ressource (448 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781350164918
Series Statement:
Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition
Content:
Hamlet is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, studied and performed around the world. This new volume in Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition increases our knowledge of how Shakespeare's plays were received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. It traces the course of Hamlet criticism, from the earliest items of recorded criticism to the latter half of the Victorian period. The focus of the documentary material is from the late 18th century to the late 19th century. Thus the volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century. The introduction constitutes an important chapter of literary history, tracing the entire critical career of Hamlet from the beginnings to the present day. The volume features criticism from leading literary figures, such as Henry James, Anna Jameson, Victor Hugo, Thomas Carlyle, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Mary Cowden Clarke. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. Thus the volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century
Note:
general editor's preface preface introduction 1. thomas davies, on Steevens's and Malone's editions and various 18th century theatrical performances, 1784 2. william richardson, a philosophical analysis of Hamlet's character, 1784 3. walter whiter, on Hamlet's melancholic disposition, 1794 4. johann wolfgang von goethe, Hamlet's character as analogue for Wilheim Meister's own disenchantment, 1797 5 lord john chedworth, Glosses and personal annotation of early variorum editions (Johnson, Steevens, Malone), 1805 6 e.h. seymour, on collations of various passages from quartos as a means of making the 'brightness of Shakespeare's genius still more conspicuous', 1805 7 francis douce, on the historical, cultural analogues and 'anachronisms' of the play, 1807 8 henry james pye, various commentary notes, 1807 9 john monck mason, various commentary on variorum editions, 1807 10 august wilhelm von schlegel, on Hamlet's unheroic predisposition, 1808 11 samuel taylor coleridge, on Hamlet's "unpractical being" and similarity with Wilhelm Meister, 1810 12 charles lamb, on the difficulty of representing theatrically Hamlet's 'solitary musings', 1811 13 samuel taylor coleridge, on Hamlet's "irresoluteness" of his revenge in Act 3, 1812 14 samuel taylor coleridge, Hamlet's use of 'trivial objects and familiar circumstances', 1813 15 william hazlitt, on Edmund Kean's rehearsal of Hamlet's 'undulating lines', 1814 16 andrew becket, on the importance of collation and conjecture in determining Shakespeare's meaning, 1815 17 william hazlitt, on the complexity of Hamlet's characters, with passing reference to Kemble and Kean's flawed performances, 1817 18 samuel taylor coleridge, and Hamlet's "flying" from reality, 1818 19 t[homas] c[ampbell] [john wilson] 'Letters on Shakspeare - No. 1. - Hamlet.', 1818 20 samuel taylor coleridge, Hamlet and the development of his 'philosophical criticism', 1819 21 zachary jackson, presenting 700 passages needing penetration and restoration, 1819 22 anon. 'Observations on Mr. Campbell's Essay on English Poetry', 1819 23 samuel taylor coleridge, and the 'easy language of common life' in Hamlet, 1819 24 samuel taylor coleridge, on Hamlet Act 1, 1819 25 samuel taylor coleridge, miscellaneous manuscript notes, 1819 26 augustine skottowe, various observations on scenes, 1824 27 samuel weller singer, and the dating of Hamlet, 1826 28 hartley coleridge, on the complexity of reading Hamlet's character, 1828 29 george farren, an appendix on mania and melancholy in Hamlet and Ophelia, 1829 30 thomas caldecott, a defense of Hamlet's behavior as a means of enacting revenge, 1832 31 james boaden, a memoir of Garrick's Hamlet, 1832 32 anna jameson, Ophelia, 'the snowflake dissolved in air', 1832 33 nathan drake, Hamlet's reticence to revenge, 1838 34 thomas carlyle, Shakespeare: Priest of Mankind, 1840 35 alexander dyce, a critique of Collier's 1841 and Knight's 1842 editions, 1844 36 joseph hunter, Shakespearean variants, 1845 37 henry n. hudson, the 'universality' of Hamlet's character, 1848 38 edward strachey, Hamlet as a 'man' and the 'triumph' of his revenge, 1848 39 samuel weller singer, "the meaning of 'Drink Up Eisell' in Hamlet." 1850 40 nicolaus delius, selected commentary notes, 1854 41 rev. arthur ramsay, and the 'mystery of humanity', 1856 42 henry hope reed, on Hamlet's 'meditative mind', 1856 43 william maginn, on Polonius as 'ceremonious courtier', 1856 44 william rushton, on Shakespeare's legal acumen, 1859 45 ivan turgenev,on the 'turbulent sea' and the 'deep flowing tranquility', 1860 46 charles cowden clarke and the 'shrouding' of Hamlet's revenge, 1863 47 georg gottfried gervinus, the 'conscientious' Hamlet, 1863 48 b[rinsley] nicholson, Shakespeare and 'sour and stale beer', 1864 49 james henry hackett, reviews of contemporary 'Hamlets', 1864 50 victor hugo , Hamlet and "hesitation", 1864 51 albert cohn, the German 'Hamlet', 1865 52 samuel bailey, on the empirical Shakespeare, 1866 53 john bucknill, 'Ophelia, so simple, so beautiful, so pitiful', 1867 54 thomas keightley, on individual passages, 1867 55 benno tschischwitz, on Bruno's atomistic philosophy and Hamlet, 1867 56 benno tschischwitz, on Shakespeare's philosophy and Giordano Bruno's influence, 1869 57 p[eter] a[ugustin] daniel, notes and conjectures, 1870 58 george miles, A Review of ''Hamlet'. 1870 59 r[obert] g[ordon] latham, the 'hopelessness' of Hamlet's pre-cursors, 1872 60 mary cowden clarke, on Ophelia's youth, 1873 61 karl elze, the French Hamlet, 1874 62 edward dowden, and mystery, the 'baffling, vital obscurity of the play', 1875 63 [francis] frank a[lbert] marshall, 'the early life' of Hamlet, 1875 64 hermann ulrici, Hamlet's 'double contradiction', 1876 65 john bulloch, and the Globe edition emendations, 1878 66 j. o. halliwell-phillipps , on Hamlet's 'singular determination', 1879 67 charles cowden clarke and mary cowden clarke, 'unlocking the treasures of his style', 1879 Notes Select Bibliography Index
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Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350164918
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