内容简介
The"AnnotatedShakespeare"seriesallowsreaderstofullyunderstandandenjoytherichplaysoftheworld'sgreatestdramatist.Oneofthemostfrequentlyreadandperformedofallstageworks,Shakespeare's"Hamlet"isunsurpassedinitscomplexityandrichness.Thisfullyannotatedversionof"Hamlet"makestheplaycompletelyaccessibletoreadersinthe21stcentury.Ithasbeencarefullyassembledwithstudents,teachersandthegeneralreaderinmind.EminentlinguistandtranslatorBurtonRaffeloffershelpwithvocabularyandusageofElizabethanEnglish,pronunciation,prosodyandalternativereadingsofphrasesandlines.Hison-pageannotationsprovidereaderswithallthetoolstheyneedtocomprehendtheplayandbegintoexploreitsmanypossibleinterpretations.Inhisintroduction,RaffeloffersimportantbackgroundontheoriginsandpreviousversionsoftheHamletstory,alongwithananalysisofthecharactersofHamletandOphelia.Andinaconcludingessay,HaroldBloommeditatesontheoriginalityofShakespeare'sachievement.--ThistextreferstoanalternatePaperbackedition.
作者简介
BurtonRaffelisEndowedChairinArtsandHumanitiesandprofessorofEnglishattheUniversityofLouisianaatLafayette.AmonghismanyeditedandtranslatedpublicationsarePoemsandProsefromtheOldEnglish,Yvain,andPerceval,allpublishedbyYaleUniversityPress,andBeowulf,TheStoryoftheGrail,TheAnnotatedMilton,andSirGawainandtheGreenKnight.HaroldBloom,SterlingProfessorofHumanitiesatYaleUniversityandBergProfessorofEnglishatNewYorkUniversity,istheauthorofmanybooks,includingTheWesternCanon,Shakespeare:TheInventionoftheHuman,and,mostrecently,Hamlet:PoemUnlimited.--ThistextreferstoanalternatePaperbackedition.