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Hamlet (from Sourcebooks, Inc.)
William Shakespeare

ISBN-10: 0205505732
ISBN-13: 9780205505739

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper
Published: 12/28/2006

Suggested retail price: $11.80
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The Sourcebooks Shakespeare Edition of Hamlet features an integrated audio CD with 25 performances by different actors throughout the twentieth century, narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi, one of Britain's foremost actors of stage and screen.  Detailed essays, commentary and photos accompany our newly edited text of the play. 

Hear 12 classic scenes with Hamlet played by:

• John Barrymore (1928)

• John Gielgud (from a 1948 recording made for radio)

• Laurence Olivier (from his 1948 movie soundtrack)

• Richard Burton (from Gielgud's 1964 "rehearsal" production on Broadway)

• Derek Jacobi (from a 1980 production for BBC-TV)

 

See images from notable productions:

• At the Joseph Papp Public Theater with Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, and Liev Schreiber as Hamlet

• Simon Russell Beale in New York City, Roger Rees at the Royal Shakespeare Company

• Stills from Kenneth Branagh's 1996 film and Michael Almereyda's 2000 version

• Set designs and costume renderings from a 1934 production directed by Sir John Gielgud

 

Read essays and commentary with insights from:

• Russell Jackson, editor of The Oxford Illustrated History of Shakespeare on Stage, on Kenneth Branagh's 1996 film.

• Douglas Lanier, editor of Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture on Hamlet as inspiration for contemporary media

• Text editor Terri Bourus on productions of Hamlet throughout history

 

Additional essays dissect a contemporary performance, offer a modern cast's insights into their characters, and uncover the history of Shakespeare's world.

 

Text Editor: Terri Bourus

Advisory Editors:  David Bevington and Peter Holland

 

 

Table of Contents

 

On the CD

Notes from the Series Editors

 

In Production: Hamlet through the Years

                by Terri Bourus

 

As Performed: Thoughts on Branagh’s Hamlet

                by Russell Jackson

“Caviar to the General”: Hamlet in Popular Culture

                by Douglas Lanier

Hamlet BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

edited by Terri Bourus

The Cast Speaks: The 2006 Cast of the Actors From The London Stage

                by Marie Macaisa

A Voice Coach's Perspective on Speaking Shakespeare:

Keeping Shakespeare Practical

by Andrew Wade

In the Age of Shakespeare

                by Thomas Garvey

Acknowledgments

Audio Credits

Photo Credits

About the Contributors

 

For Literature for Composition


For British Literature Survey (One Semester)


For British Literature Survey I


For Introduction to Literature


For Renaissance Literature


For Shakespeare


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