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Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623: Third Series (The Arden Shakespeare Third Series) Paperback – January 15, 2007

by William Shakespeare (Author), Neil Taylor (Editor), Ann Thompson (Editor, Series Editor),

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This volume gives readers the First Quarto text of 1603 and the Folio Text of 1623, modernised and edited to the usual Arden standard. As a companion to the Second Quarto volume, it will be of particular interest to scholars and students of textual history, or to anyone studying Hamlet at an advanced level. Both plays are edited and annotated and the introduction contains the fullest available stage history of the First Quarto text.

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“The Arden3 Hamlet is fascinating, and every Shakespeare scholar will want to possess it. The editors' approach is attuned to the relativism, pluralism, and skepticism of our time, and it is defended with remarkable thoroughness and intelligence....Thompson and Taylor's introductory material is in line with their treatment of the text...they are concerned to introduce the reader to the multitude of diverse critical approaches and to the variety within the developing theatrical tradition. They do this very well, and their discussion of Hamlet on stage and screen and of its offshoots in drama and fiction fills a notable gap...The full and consistently interesting commentary is also enlivened by snippets of information about performances...Thompson and Taylor have made an innovative and stimulating contribution to the Arden3 series.” ―Shakespeare Quarterly

“Hamlet...has been given a rebirth of sorts by editors Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor...puts the final pieces of the "puzzle of Hamlet" into place by publishing...updated versions of both the First Quarto and First Folio editions of the play. This wonderful ternion gives the serious students of Hamlet everything they need to delve deeply into the Dane. The textual annotations are extensive and worth the price of the book alone. None of the material is duplicated from the Hamlet: Arden Third Series, so this is all new commentary from two of the brightest minds in the world of Shakespeare... Delivers the quality you've come to expect from Arden.” ―PlayShakespeare.com

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Ann Thompson is Professor of English Language and Literature and Head of the School of Humanities at King's College London. She has edited The Taming of the Shrew, and her other publications include Shakespeare's Chaucer, Shakespeare, Meaning and Metaphor (with John O. Thompson), and Women Reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900 (with Sasha Roberts). She has also published widely on editing Shakespeare and Shakespeare's language. She is one of the General Editors of the Arden Shakespeare.

Neil Taylor is Dean of Research and Dean of the Graduate School at Roehampton University. He has edited Henry IV, Part 2 and (with Brian Loughrey) Thomas Middleton: Five Plays. He has also published widely on editing Shakespeare, Shakespeare on film, and other aspects of Renaissance and modern drama.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Arden Shakespeare; 3rd edition (January 15, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1904271804
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1904271802
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.06 x 0.8 x 7.81 inches

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David

great edition

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2023

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I'll always prefer Folgers for teaching a high school (non AP or IB) level, but for new scholars on a college/university level, the Arden editions have so much more to offer, and are a fantastic springboard for starting research into textual history; the first and second editions are proving difficult to track down hard copies of, but I hope these Arden series will survive our American culture's transition to the AI post-twitterverse.

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I am a traditional orthodox Protestant minister who presently must support myself while caring for my congregation. One line of enterprise I have undertaken to pay the bills, as have other preachers before me, is to teach and tutor students. Working with a Korean high schooler on Shakespeare, I came across this title during Internet research on HAMLET. Glad I ordered it! You could not desire a more comprehensive introduction, glossary, and commentary on this, possibly the greatest work of the Bard. Specially instructive in ferreting out nuances, double entendres and cultural references which 21st century goundlings might miss. The two-volume edition with all three recensions of the play gives great clarity to the problems of text involved, and helped me better appreciate the limits of the new Oxford Complete Shakespeare. If you can also buy the BBC video production, you're good to go. Hamlet: The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623: Third Series (Arden Shakespeare)

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Hamlet: A Fresh Look at the Danish Prince

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2007

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The folks at Arden decided to bring forth all three versions of Shakespeare's revenge (or anti-revenge) tragedy so that those who care can study the similarities and differences between the texts for themselves. I teach many Shakespearean plays and using the "bad quarto" of 1603 in conjunction with the oft used conflated text is an eye-opener for students who get a chance to truly engage in the text when comparing, say, Hamlet's third act soliloquy of the Folio (1623) version with the often maligned 1603 version. As usual, the people at Arden do an excellent job at editing the works. This is an excellent companion piece to the recently released third edition of Hamlet by the same editors of the 1604 Quarto text. A welcome addition to any Bardolators library.

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Arnold D.

Excellent in condition and price

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2021

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The book was in pristine shape. The book in such condition should cost more.

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2013

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This is by far the best edition of Hamelt I have ever found. I have kept H. H. Furness New Variorum and Riverside Editions, both are outstanding editions in their rights. But by comparison this Arden version is the single volume that has all the info you would need for advanced studies or just reading for literary appreciation of this masterpiece. New Variorum is obviously a product of early 20th century with outdated sources and Riverside is not dedicated to one play...

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Arden Shakespeare Hamlet

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2006

I am currently working on my MFA/Directing. I directed Hamlet and am now writing my defense of it. I have two thoughts on this third edition.

After going through this edition, from a point of view of the script, I'm not sure I understand the need to update Harold Jenkins's 2d edition. The script itself was easier to navigate in the 2d edition and I thought Jenkins's notes were more helpful. I also disagree with some of what Thompson and Taylor have to say in their editorial notes below the script. That said, I am biased because I used the 2d edition as a sort of "Hamlet Bible" as I directed the piece. Jenkins's notes were extremely insightful and useful. I became very comfortable with it.

On the other hand, this third edition has some different insight into the play in performance than does the second edition, as well as information on casting and music that was not included in Jenkins. Obviously there is much written about William Shakespeare in the world, and this 3rd edition of Arden is probably the most up-to-date resource for bibliographic material (as well as some photos of past productions of the play). Jenkins edition is 24 years old, ancient in the scholastic world's "what's new" when it comes to sifting the vast quantity of material written on Shakespeare and Hamlet.

Obviously, the needs of the theatrical world for playing Hamlet are different than that of the scholastic world (of which I am currently stuck in both). I think Jenkins is more user-friendly for the theatrician while Thompson & Taylor suit the needs of the scholastic better. My final thought is that a scholar/student of Shakespeare will want to have both the second and third editions for the differences they have to offer.

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Dorothy

Excellent Edition

Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2019

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Reliable text and superior coverage of textual and performance history.

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2012

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The Arden series are the perfect editions to accompanie someone through Shakespeare works, it gives you a wide image of historical context, cultural context and also the different theories about Shakespeare criticism, plus it also has a simple way to read each page with notes in the side.

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Altertumswissenschaftler

Lesenswert

Reviewed in Germany on May 5, 2023

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Für jeden der Shakespeare mag und im Original lesen will, kann ich diese Ausgabe nur sehr empfehlen!!

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Estela

Really quick

Reviewed in Spain on March 30, 2019

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Really grateful about this book, and the time it took to came to Spain. Thanks for all!!

Georgia

The Arden Shakespeare: versione essenziale per studi anglistici.

Reviewed in Italy on April 5, 2013

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Ottima versione critica. L'introduzione è chiara, dettagliata e affronta quasi tutti i temi riguardanti la stesura, pubblicazione e riproduzione dell'opera shakespeariana. Il testo è corredato da lunghe note che spiegano i versi e fanno un paragone tra Q1, Q2 e First Folio.
Ogni studioso di letteratura inglese (e non solo) dovrebbe possedere qualche opera della collana The Arden Shakespeare.

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Jon Chambers

Competent update

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 1, 2010

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Depending on your point of view, Arden3's Hamlet is either a neat solution or a cop-out. Either way, their two-volume edition of the play represents a departure from the single-volume norm that has characterised The Arden Shakespeare since 1899. As with King Lear, the existence of substantially different original sources for the play means that the Hamlet editor is faced with a choice: to conflate, or not to conflate. Unlike King Lear's editor, RA Foakes, Thompson and Taylor opt against pick and mixing in favour of a multi-volume edition. This one bases its text on the 'good' quarto of 1604-5, while the other volume (essentially a supplement) presents both the 'bad' quarto and the folio alternatives, of 1601 and 1623 respectively.

Choosing the text is not the only problem confronting an editor of Hamlet. As Thompson and Taylor observe, over 400 Hamlet-related works appear every year. Simply keeping track of new publications is a virtually impossible task and wisely the editors attempt no more than to give us a brief overview of them in an Introduction that is more up-to-date and informed than groundbreaking.

The editors sound a note of frustration in observing that much modern Hamlet criticism seems focused on previous critical comment rather than on the play! However, a selection of the more rewarding new thought is presented, including Steven Goldblatt's attempt to tackle the problem of a Wittenburg-educated, Protestant prince swallowing the Ghost's claim to have come from an obviously Catholic purgatory - the existence of which place was expressly denied by the Tudor Church of England. Greenblatt identifies a longing for the certainties of the old faith, lost fifty years previously.

One of the most important ideas to emerge in recent years is that advanced by Melchiori that Q1 represents an acting version of the play and Q2 a literary one. On the perennial problem of date, this Arden thinks that best evidence points to 1600 or spring 1601. On sources, as well as the usual suspects (ie Saxo, Belleforest and Montaigne) Arden3 suggests that Plautus (generally) and Nashe (verbally) were important influences, and cites recent work by Miola and Tobin, respectively. And the author of the hypothetical Ur-Hamlet? If not by Kyd, Arden considers this enigmatic c1590 prototype a possible early draft by Shakespeare himself - an idea expressed in Peter Ackroyd's biography of 2005.

In terms of literary status, Hamlet may now trail King Lear, but its iconic power and its hold on the popular imagination remain undiminished. It is Hamlet's soliloquies that have long been considered key to the play's monumentality and appeal. These soliloquies are supposed to show a new interiority and psychological complexity - Renaissance qualities, in other words. Arden questions such assumptions. Not only had such inner subjectivity appeared in the medieval poets Langland and Chaucer, the editors claim, but Hamlet's soliloquies are meditations upon commonplace themes, and consequently less personal than those of, say, Richard III, Iago or Lear. And in any case, the editors identify an increasing exteriority in modern productions, in which Hamlet projects his thoughts as much outwards as inwards - towards the kind of intimate (even interactive!) audiences found at more authentically Elizabethan venues like The Swan or The Globe.

There are just a couple of minor gripes. Some linking commentary seems lacking in the discussion of the acting styles of Irving and Barrymore. More perlexing is the passage by Holland quoted on p94. This explains how Brannagh's eclectic adding of Q2 dialogue to F helps viewers understand Hamlet's 'vicious pun'. But the point being made is that, according to Holland, 'more of Shakespeare is not ... necessarily better'. Here, surely, more (ie Q2 added to F) certainly does seem better, in advancing our understanding!

Many may feel that Harold Jenkins' supremely comprehensive Arden2 of 1982 still has currency. But it is difficult to argue with the current editors' view that, firstly, the needs of today's student readership are very different from those of a generation ago. This Arden3 succeeds in conveying the complexity of the play and the plurality of response to it, while simultaneously ensuring accessibility to newcomers. And that secondly, the huge quantity of post-1982 criticism and performance meant that Arden2 was, in some ways at least, badly in need of an update. Thompson and Taylor are worthy enough successors to Jenkins. But if the Hamlet industry continues to grow exponentially, they must themselves expect to be superseded by Arden4 in around 2020!

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earthlingonfire

probablement l'édition de référence actuelle

Reviewed in France on May 29, 2010

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Les problèmes que pose(nt) le(s) texte(s) de Hamlet ainsi que son sens sont bien connus et notoirement insolubles. Ann Thompson et Neil Taylor en prennent acte, comme du fait que leur tâche est de proposer une édition de Hamlet, pas une thèse sur Hamlet. L'introduction pourra décevoir si on la compare à certaines autres de la série, qui ouvrent des pistes de lecture nouvelles. Thompson et Taylor se "contentent" de dresser l'état des lieux et l'histoire de la réflexion sur Hamlet et de son interprétation, sans choisir et sans apporter une seule idée nouvelle. Ils semblent par défaut nous dire ainsi que "leur" Hamlet, c'est la polysémie de Hamlet et l'histoire cumulée de ses lectures et de ses appropriations. C'est sans doute peu original de nos jours, mais concernant cette pièce en particulier c'est sans doute particulièrement pertinent. Refus de choisir dans l'établissement du texte également : puisqu'aucune "vérité" n'a pour l'instant fait l'objet d'un consensus (l'aporie qui frappent toute théorie sur les relations entre Q1, Q2 et F est clairement exposée), Thompson et Taylor refusent d'arbitrer entre les trois textes originaux mais aussi de les mélanger : ils proposent donc une édition non pas "de" Hamlet mais des trois Hamlet (les deux premier in-quarto et l'in-folio). Une telle édition pouvait difficilement tenir en un seul volume des format, papier et taille de caractères d'Arden ; on se retrouve donc avec deux volumes. On notera tout de même que le premier contient Q2 tandis que Q1 et F sont regroupés dans le second, ce qui semble indiquer que, malgré leur relativisme affiché, les éditeurs ont comme la majorité de leurs confrères une préférence pour Q2. Si une édition aussi imposante fait trop, on pourra se contenter de Jenkins (Arden 2) ou Hibbard (The Oxford Shakespeare, dont Thompson et Taylor montrent bien la fragilité de la théorie textuelle) mais il sera désormais difficile d'ignorer cette édition qui se met au service du texte (des textes, plutôt) sans filtrage et invite à la lecture au lieu de servir du prêt-à-penser.
Ce volume est le premier de l'édition et présente le texte de Q2, ainsi que l'introduction. Le second volume, consacré à Q1 et F1 est ici : Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623 .

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