Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: David Bevington (Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago, Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago, University of Chicago)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.10cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 21.70cm
Weight: 0.330kg
ISBN: 9780198701026
ISBN 10: 0198701020
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 23 January 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
fascinating * The Stage * an engaging history of Hamlet * Times Higher Education * Murder Most Foul is a fascinating book...a literary delight. * Dr R Balashankar, Organiser * Review from previous edition In a short space this account embraces a wealth of detail about Hamlet...an impressively comprehensive account. * Kenneth Richards, Journal of Theatre Research International *
Review from previous edition In a short space this account embraces a wealth of detail about Hamlet...an impressively comprehensive account. Kenneth Richards, Journal of Theatre Research International Murder Most Foul is a fascinating book...a literary delight. Dr R Balashankar, Organiser an engaging history of Hamlet Times Higher Education fascinating The Stage
Author Information
David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1967. He has published widely on Shakespeare and his contemporaries. His recent books include The Seven Ages of Human Experience (Blackwell, 2005), co-authored with Anne Marie Welsh and Michael L. Greenwald, Shakespeare: Script, Stage, Screen (Pearson Longman, 2006), This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare's Plays in Production, Then and Now (University of Chicago Press, 2007) and Shakespeare's Ideas (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008). He is the senior editor of the Revels Student Editions, the Revels Plays, and of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. He is also senior editor of the Norton Anthology of Renaissance Drama (2002).
