Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 21Gale Research Company, 1984 - 461 pages This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. The volume focus on the history of Shakespeare's play Hamlet on the stage and in important film adaptations. |
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Page 27
... lines of advice to Ophelia , and Polonius is allowed fifteen lines of admonishment to his son for the first time in the century . Garrick's brain furnished him with two more . The description of Danish drunkenness is cut as usual . The ...
... lines of advice to Ophelia , and Polonius is allowed fifteen lines of admonishment to his son for the first time in the century . Garrick's brain furnished him with two more . The description of Danish drunkenness is cut as usual . The ...
Page 74
... lines was only about 220 lines longer than the com- monly used acting version printed in the Modern Standard Drama . Although he claimed privately to have studied the text in a dozen or more modern editions , and although he was careful ...
... lines was only about 220 lines longer than the com- monly used acting version printed in the Modern Standard Drama . Although he claimed privately to have studied the text in a dozen or more modern editions , and although he was careful ...
Page 351
... lines . His very first speech ( I.ii.50ff . ) is cut partially by Wood . Much of his long exhortation to Ophelia about Hamlet ( I.iii.5ff . ) is left out by everyone but Garrick's revision , which leaves out nothing , Olivier , who ...
... lines . His very first speech ( I.ii.50ff . ) is cut partially by Wood . Much of his long exhortation to Ophelia about Hamlet ( I.iii.5ff . ) is left out by everyone but Garrick's revision , which leaves out nothing , Olivier , who ...
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