Reading Shakespeare's Hamlet

by John Lennard

This book approaches Shakespeare as utterly a man of the theatre, a professional actor before he was a playwright and a resident dramatist who knew intimately the actors for whom he wrote. It continues by 'Approaching Hamlet' in that light, and as a revenge tragedy deliberately overloaded with complications. The middle chapters look in detail at the 'Actors and Players' of the drama, starting with the Ghost and ending with 'the best actors in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847600840
• ISBN13: 9781847600844
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Humanities-eBooks
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.4" x 9.7"