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Contents General Editors' Preface vii 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 'theory' in literary studies: an aversion to its obscure jargon and 2 To Be Or Mot To Be darkness, the afternoon sun comes up on an Elizabethan production of the play. Standing near the front of a wide wooden platform, an actor in hose and doublet begins the famous soliloquy: To be ... Before he can finish this line, another stage in a different part of the room is illuminated, this time by torches. You turn your head and see the same actor delivering the speech less broadly, his voice lowered for what appears to be a more intimate setting: or not to be ... Both Hamlets speak at once, and are joined in quick order by a third figure: that is the question. Dressed less formally than the others, this Hamlet bobs up and down slightly as he gives his lines. You note with some surprise that he stands on the deck of an Elizabethan ship. More strange still, this ship -fro

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Author

Bruster, Douglas

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781441125002

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction