Hamlet - Arden Shakespeare: Second Series - Paperback Paperback - 1982
by William Shakespeare; Harold Jenkins (Editor)
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Reader response to Hamlet is sharply divided. Enthusiasts celebrate its psychological nuance, quotable verse, and breadth of interpretation, often reporting richer insights on reread or when paired with performances. Detractors fault the dense, archaic language and length, with several relying on modern translations or abandoning the play. Commentary clusters around uncertainty, mortality, deception, and a diseased polity, with debates over Hamlet’s paralysis and sanity and mixed feelings about Ophelia. Many encountered it in classrooms, where annotations, films, and audio made the experience more navigable and engaging.
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Hodder & Stroughton published a First Edition, First Printing hardcover in New York, circa 1910. This edition was illustrated by W.G. Simmonds. The quarto is bound in green cloth boards with silt lettering and an introduction by Arthur Quiller-Couch.
The Cranach Presse published a first edition hardcover, illustrated by Edward Gordon Craig in 1929.
Cambridge University Press published a First edition, First printing hardcover in 1985, Cambridge. Edited by Philip Edwards
Easton Press published a First Edition, First printing hardcover in 2008, Norwalk. The edition is leather-bound with 3 raised bands.
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- Title Hamlet - Arden Shakespeare: Second Series - Paperback
- Author William Shakespeare; Harold Jenkins (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd
- Pages 585
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic, London
- Publication date April 29, 1982
- ISBN 9781903436677 / 1903436672
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 7.77 x 4.97 x 1.06 in (19.74 x 12.62 x 2.69 cm)
- Category Plays / Drama
- Dewey Decimal Code 822.33
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