Product Description

The refreshing insight and originality of the selections will surprise students new to Shakespeare as well as experts in the field. For anyone interested in what is arguably the most complex tale ever told, Kinney and his contributors have enlivened a fascinating, age-old debate.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1974860 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Review
""Hamlet: New Critical Essays offers stimulating essays that in their very variety demonstrate the play's endless renewability and ongoing fascination for us.."
-Ronald J. Boling, "Shakespeare Bulletin
"Now the great hero of dramatic literature. Arthur F. Kinney is a perfect choice to select and eidt the 10 scholars whose work is represented in "Hamlet: New Critical Essays. This is a distinguished work i Routledge's Shakespeare Criticism Series."
-BHR LXV, January 2003

From the Back Cover
Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the international contributors to Hamlet: New Critical Essays contribute major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of Hamlet. This book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive critical analysis available of one of Shakespeare's best-known and most engaging plays.

About the Author
Arthur Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History and Director of the Massachusettes Center for Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusettes, Amherst.

Arthur Kinney, E. Pearlman, R. A. Foakes, Philip Edwards, Paul Werstine, Catherine Belsey, Jerry Brotton, Terence Hawkes, Ann Thompson, Peter Erickson, Richard Levin