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When Shakespeare wrote ""Hamlet,"" there was no need to explain complex characterizations: he and his cast knew how the play should be performed. So now, nearly four hundred years later, when theatre companies produce ""Hamlet,"" more and more of them are looking to the First Quarto, the original version, for inspiration. ""The Play Behind the Play"" is essential reading for anyone interested in producing or understanding ""Hamlet"" as it was first presented. Foster takes up in detail the First Quarto, which is reproduced in its entirety, while discussing the early stories that furnished the play's basic plot. He analyzes the First Quarto as a drama, then discussed the complications introduced--most of them unintentionally--by Shakespeare's later revisions. In the process, readers gain new insight into the play itself, observing the play's evolution as it took shape in Shakespeare's mind.

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