Unique features of The Signet Classic Shakespeare Hamlet are: special introduction to the play by the editor, Edward Hubler of Princeton University; general discussion of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of the Signet Classic series, Sylvan Barnet of Tufts University; special note on the sources on which Shakespeare drew for Hamlet; dramatic criticism from the past and present: commentaries by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, A. C. Bradley, Harley Granville-Barker, Wolfgang Clemen, Maynard Mack, Robert Ornstein; text and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable type; name of each speaker given in full; detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page of the play keyed to the numbered lines of the text; textual note; extensive bibliography.
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About the Author:
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. He was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613.
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- PublisherSignet Classics
- Publication date1963
- ISBN 10 0451520610
- ISBN 13 9780451520616
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages271
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