Name: A Synoptic Hamlet: a Critical-Synoptic Edition of the Second Quarto and First Folio Texts of Hamlet (Oberta)
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Author: Jesús Tronch-Pérez
ISBN: 9788437053813

portada A Synoptic Hamlet: a Critical-Synoptic Edition of the Second Quarto and First Folio Texts of Hamlet (Oberta)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jesús Tronch Pérez

Publisher

Publicacions de la Universitat de València

Pages

408

Format

Paperback

ISBN

8437053811

ISBN13

9788437053813

Synopsis "A Synoptic Hamlet: a Critical-Synoptic Edition of the Second Quarto and First Folio Texts of Hamlet (Oberta)"

a synoptic hamlet is an alternative response to the editorial problems of this multiple-text play. like most critical editions, it presents the early texts in a manner helpful to the general reader by modernizing spelling and punctuation, and emending non-sensical readings. however, it does not hide the texts diversity by exclusively selecting readings from either the second quarto or the first folio in order to reconstruct a single-reading version corresponding to the authentic hamlet. rather, it makes their significant variants immediately available in the line itself (offering alternative editorial interpretations of identical or similar readings at certain points). thus the reader can have a direct appreciation of the divergence and similarity between these early texts from which the hamlet of today is known.