Hamlet: The State of Play

Sonia Massai is Professor of Shakespeare Studies in the English Department at King's College London, UK. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor (2007), and the editor of collection of essays, including Ivo van Hove: from Shakespeare to David Bowie (2018), and of plays, including John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (2011).Lucy Munro is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at King’s College London, UK. She is the author of Children of the Queen’s Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory (2005) and Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590-1674 (2013), and the editor of plays including Fletcher’s The Tamer Tamed and Dekker, Ford and Rowley’s The Witch of Edmonton.

• List of IllustrationsSeries PrefaceIntroduction: Sonia Massai (King’s College London) and Lucy Munro (King’s College London) Chapter 1: Hamlet’s Touch of Picture: Kaara L. Peterson (Miami University, USA)Chapter 2: Remembering Ophelia: Theatrical Properties and the Performance of Memory in Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Kathryn M. Moncrief (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)Chapter 3: “Tragedians of the City”: Hamlet and Urban Exile: Kelly Stage (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA)Chapter 4: Code Black: Whiteness and Unmanliness in Hamlet: David Sterling Brown (SUNY Binghamton, USA)Chapter 5: Character Fictions in Hamlet: Jay Farness (Northern Arizona University, USA)Chapter 6: Q1 Hamlet and the Sequence of Creation of the Texts: Charles Adams Kelly (Howland Research) and Dayna Leigh Plehn (Howland Research, USA)Chapter 7: The Hamlet First Quarto: Traces of Performance?: William Nigel Dodd (ADD, USA)Chapter 8: “You must wear your rue with a difference”: Gertrude, Ghazala, and the Sati in Haider’: Pompa Banerjee (University of Colorado, Denver, USA)Chapter 9: ‘Most Eloquent Music’ (and Multiple Texts): The 2017 Glyndebourne Opera of Hamlet : Ann Thompson (King’s College London, UK) and Neil Taylor (Roehampton University, UK)NotesReferencesIndex