Name: Murder Most Foul By David Bevington (Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago, Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago, University of Chicago)
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Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages by David Bevington (Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago, Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago, University of Chicago)

What is it about Hamlet that has made it such a compelling and vital work? Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages is an account of Shakespeare's great play from its sources in Scandinavian epic lore to the way it was performed and understood in his own day, and then how the play has fared down to the present: performances on stage, television, and in film, critical evaluations, publishing history, spinoffs, spoofs, musical adaptations, the play's growing reputation, its influence on writers and thinkers, and the ways in which it has shaped the very language we speak. The staging, criticism, and editing of Hamlet , David Bevington argues, go hand in hand over the centuries, to such a remarkable extent that the history of Hamlet can be seen as a kind of paradigm for the cultural history of the English-speaking world.

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Review from previous edition In a short space this account embraces a wealth of detail about Hamlet...an impressively comprehensive account. * Kenneth Richards, Journal of Theatre Research International *
Murder Most Foul is a fascinating book...a literary delight. * Dr R Balashankar, Organiser *
an engaging history of Hamlet * Times Higher Education *
fascinating * The Stage *

About David Bevington (Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago, Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago, University of Chicago)

David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1967. He has published widely on Shakespeare and his contemporaries. His recent books include The Seven Ages of Human Experience (Blackwell, 2005), co-authored with Anne Marie Welsh and Michael L. Greenwald, Shakespeare: Script, Stage, Screen (Pearson Longman, 2006), This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare's Plays in Production, Then and Now (University of Chicago Press, 2007) and Shakespeare's Ideas (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008). He is the senior editor of the Revels Student Editions, the Revels Plays, and of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. He is also senior editor of the Norton Anthology of Renaissance Drama (2002).

INTRODUCTION ; 1. Prologue to Some Great Amiss: The Prehistory of Hamlet ; 2. Actions That a Man Might Play: Hamlet on Stage in 1599-1601 ; 3. The Play's the Thing: Ideological Contexts of Hamlet in 1599-1601 ; 4. The Mirror Up to Nature: Hamlet in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ; 5. The Very Torrent, Tempest, and Whirlwind of Your Passion: Hamlet in the Nineteenth Century ; 6. Reform It Altogether: Hamlet, c. 1900-1980 ; 7. There is Nothing Either Good or Bad But Thinking Makes It So: Postmodern Hamlet ; NOTES ; FURTHER READING ; INDEX

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Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages by David Bevington (Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago, Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago, University of Chicago)

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David Bevington (Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago, Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago, University of Chicago)

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Murder Most Foul David Bevington (Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago, Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago, University of Chicago)

Murder Most Foul by David Bevington (Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago, Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago, University of Chicago)

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Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages by David Bevington (Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago, Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Chicago, University of Chicago)

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