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Hamlet, the play that defines English literature, has now been put onto the screen by the actor and director Kenneth Branagh, the man who is going to be the Hamlet for our generation, and for many more. This edition of Shakespeare\’s Hamlet takes its text from the authoritative Norton Critical Edition of the work and includes a preface and footnotes by the noted Elizabethan scholar Cyrus Hoy. The preface places Hamlet in the context of its times and of the evolving criticism of the work.
CYRUS HOY is John B. Trevor Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Rochester. His publications include The Hyacinth Room: An Investigation into the Nature of Comedy, Tragedy, and Tragicomedy, four commentary volumes of The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, and numerour articles in scholarly journals.
