Description |
1 online resource (ix, 108 pages) |
Series |
Shakespeare now! |
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Shakespeare now
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Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; General Editors' Preface; 1 In the Shakespeare Museum; 2 What are the Questions?; 3 There's the Rub; 4 How Does it Mean? (The Speech as Poem); 5 The Name of Action (The Speech in Context); 6 Not One Speech but Three, or There's the Point'; 7 Consummation (Some Conclusions); 8 Acknowledgments and Further Reading; Index |
Summary |
Hamlet's To be or not to be soliloquy is quoted more often than any other passage in Shakespeare.€ It is arguably the most famous speech in the Western world - though few of us can remember much about it. This book carefully unpacks the individual words, phrases and sentences of Hamlet's soliloquy in order to reveal how and why it has achieved its remarkable hold on our culture. Hamlet's speech asks us to ask some of the most serious questions there are regarding knowledge and existence. In it, Shakespeare also expands the limits of the English language. Douglas Bruster therefore reads Ha |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-106) index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet -- Criticism, Textual.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120812
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Shakespeare, William. swd |
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Hamlet (Shakespeare, William) fast (OCoLC)fst01356128 |
Subject |
Soliloquy.
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Theatre studies.
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Shakespeare studies & criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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Soliloquy.
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Monolog
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781441125002 |
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1441125000 |
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1283122502 |
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9781283122504 |
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9781472555533 |
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1472555538 |
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9781441161017 |
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1441161015 |
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