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Hamlet : complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives

The play, its history, and criticism
Print Book, English, ©1994
Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, Boston, ©1994
418 s.
9780312089863, 9780312055448, 9780333594926, 0312089864, 0312055447, 0333594924
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About the Seriesv(2)
About This Volumevii
PART ONE Hamlet: The Complete Text3(178)
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts3(24)
The Complete Text
27(127)
Note on the Text
154(2)
Textual Notes
156(25)
PART TWO Hamlet: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism181(222)
A Critical History of Hamlet
181(27)
Feminist Criticism and Hamlet
208(33)
What Is Feminist Criticism?
208(7)
Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
215(5)
A Feminist Perspective: Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism
220(21)
ELAINE SHOWALTER
Psychoanalytic Criticism and Hamlet
241(42)
What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism?
241(10)
Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
251(5)
A Psychoanalytic Perspective: "Man and Wife Is One Flesh": Hamlet and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body
256(27)
JANET ADELMAN
Deconstruction and Hamlet
283(49)
What Is Deconstruction?
283(10)
Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography
293(4)
A Deconstructionist Perspective: Hamlet: Giving Up the Ghost
297(35)
MARJORIE GARBER
Marxist Criticism and Hamlet
332(36)
What Is Marxist Criticism?
332(13)
Marxist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
345(3)
A Marxist Perspective: "Funeral Bak'd-Meats": Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Hamlet
348(20)
MICHAEL D. BRISTOL
The New Historicism and Hamlet
368(35)
What Is the New Historicism
368(9)
The New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography
377(3)
A New Historicist Perspective: "Suche Strange Desygns": Madness, Subjectivity, and Treason in Hamlet and Elizabethan Culture
380(23)
KARIN S. CODDON
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms403(13)
About the Contributors416