Hamlet - The First Quarto (Sos) by William Shakespeare, Graham Holderness, Bryan Loughrey

Hamlet - The First Quarto (Sos) (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) (Bedford Series in History & Culture ) (Shakespeare Made in Canada, #1) (New Swan Shakespeare) (Shakespeare Workshop S.) (Open guides to literature) (Petits Classiques Larousse Texte Integral, #116) (AMS Studies in the Renaissance, v. 30) (Dover Large Print Classics) (Yale Annotated Shakepeare S.) (Bedford Series in History & Culture (Paperback)) (L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collections) (Ediciones Fenix) (McGraw-Hill/Vtx) (Oberon Classics) (Shakespeare Abridged for Schools and Performance)

by William Shakespeare, Graham Holderness, and Bryan Loughrey

The first in a series on Shakespeare's original texts, including facsimile pages, this version of "Hamlet" is claimed to be, in some ways, the most authentic version of the play that we have. Included are an introduction, notes, and a theoretical, historical and contextual critique. This text has been rejected by scholars as a "bad Quarto" - corrupt and pirated text printed without the permission of the playwright or his company. Nonetheless, it was the first version of the play to be published and it has been produced in the modern theatre with success. This new edition of that Quarto seeks to acknowledge the play's distinctive poetic and dramatic qualities, instead of comparing them unfavourably to one of the other versions.

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Shakespeare y yo siempre hemos tenido una relación conflictiva, no me gusta nada su obra más conocida, mientras que el Sueño de una Noche de Verano, podría decirse es mi obra de teatro favoritas, me gustan las hadas.

Pensé que Hamlet se me haría fácil de leer, tengo cierta experiencia leyendo obras de teatro, además de un placer al representarlo sola al leerlo. Hamlet es una idea que sea llevado al cine y la televisión muchas más veces de las que puedas creer ¿viste el Rey León? Bueno, está basado en Hamlet.

Lo que me hace preguntarme ¿por qué no pude terminarlo? Me aburrí horrores en las primera páginas, tenía la completa seguridad que lo leería rápido, pero lamentablemente no fue así.

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