Shakespeare, Hamlet (1987)

William Shakespeare.
Hamlet.
Edited by G. R. Hibbard.
The Oxford Shakespeare.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
This edition was first published in 1987.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.

Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.

Some other noteworthy editions of Hamlet :

• William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Second Edition. Edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Third Edition. Edited by Philip Edwards. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Second Edition. Edited by Robert S. Miola. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Editor:

• G. R. (George Richard) Hibbard (born 1915) was Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
• Hibbard Prize for Shakespeare Studies, English undergraduate awards, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Waterloo.
• Mirror up to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of G.R. Hibbard. Edited by J.C. Gray. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  The preface to this book, viewable on Google Books, tells a little bit about Professor Hibbard.
• G. R. Hibbard, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Hibbard, G. R. (George Richard), 1915-, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
• G. R. Hibbard. Thomas Nashe: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1962.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• G. R. Hibbard. The Making of Shakespeare's Dramatic Poetry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. Love's Labour's Lost. Edited by G. R. Hibbard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for Love's Labour's Lost is here.
• Prof. Hibbard also edited these other plays for the Penguin Shakespeare: Coriolanus; Timon of Athens; The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Taming of the Shrew.
  Hibbard also edited an edition of Ben Johnson's Bartholomew Fair.

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Shakespearean tragedy.
• Hamlet, written between 1599 and 1601; printed in 1603 (a Bad Quarto), 1604/5 Second Quarto, 1623 First Folio.
• Chronology of Shakespeare's plays: Hamlet (1599-1601).
• Phrases from Hamlet in common English.
• Shakespeare's influence.

English Renaissance Literature, Drama:

• English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English literature: Jacobean period (1603–1625).
• English Renaissance theatre.
• Revenge play.
• Revenge tragedy.

England during Shakespeare's Time:

• Tudor period, 1485–1603.
• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabethan Religious Settlement.
• English society: Tudor society.
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603); Queen of England and Ireland 1558–1603.
• Elizabeth I: Later years.
• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.
• James VI and I (1566–1625); King of Scotland as James VI 1567–1625; King of England and Ireland as James I 1603–1625.
• Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.

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In Our Time:

• Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Carol Rutter, Sonia Massai, "Hamlet," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 28 Dec 2017.
  • See episode notes for a Reading List / References.
• Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Julie Sanders, Janet Clare, "Elizabethan Revenge," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 June 2009.
  • Elizabethan literature.
  • Revenge play.
  • Revenge tragedy.
  • Thomas Kyd (1558–1594), The Spanish Tragedy, written between 1582 and 1592.
  • Seneca the Younger (c.4 BC – AD 65), Thyestes.
  • John Marston (1576–1634), Antonio's Revenge, 1600 or 1601.
  • William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Hamlet, written between 1599 and 1601.
  • Thomas Middleton (1580–1627), The Revenger's Tragedy, first performed 1606.

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Bronte, C., Jane Eyre (2021)

Charlotte Brontë.
Jane Eyre.
Edited by Karen Swallow Prior ("A Guide to Reading and Reflecting").
Nashville, Tennessee: B&H Publishing, 2021.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.

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Wikipedia Articles: Author, Book, English Literature, British History

• Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855).
• Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847).
• Charlotte Brontë, Shirley (1849).
• Charlotte Brontë, Villette (1853).
• Charlotte Brontë, The Professor (written before Jane Eyre, first published 1857).
• Brontë family.
  • Emily Brontë (1818–1848), author of Wuthering Heights (1847).
  • Anne Brontë (1820–1849), author of Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848).
• Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865), The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857).
• Elizabeth Gaskell. The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Edited by Angus Easson. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, 2009.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Elizabeth Gaskell. The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Edited by Elisabeth Jay. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 1997.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Charlotte Brontë. Selected Letters. Edited by Margaret Smith. Introduction by Janet Gezari. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• English literature: Romanticism (1798 –1837).
• Romantic literature in English.
• Gothic fiction.
• English literature: Victorian literature (1837–1901).
• English literature: The Victorian novel.
• English novel: Victorian novel.
• Novel: 19th-century novels.
• Bildungsroman.
• Romance (prose fiction).
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• History of the United Kingdom: 1800 to 1837.
• Georgian era, 1714 to c.1830–1837.
• Regency era, c.1795 to 1837.
• History of the United Kingdom: Victorian era.
• Victorian era, 1837 to 1901.
• 1847 in the United Kingdom: Publications.

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Editor:

• Karen Swallow Prior, her website.
• Karen Swallow Prior, Substack.
• Karen Swallow Prior, Twitter.
• Karen Swallow Prior, B&H Publishing.
• Karen Swallow Prior, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Prior, Karen Swallow, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
• Karen Swallow Prior. Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me. Ossining, New York: T. S. Poetry Press, 2012.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Karen Swallow Prior. Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More: Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist. Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Karen Swallow Prior. On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press (Baker Publishing Group), 2018.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Karen Swallow Prior. The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press (Baker Publishing Group), 2023.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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In Our Time:

• Melvyn Bragg, Dinah Birch, Karen O'Brien, Sara Lyons, "Jane Eyre," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 June 2015.
  • See episode notes for a Reading List / References.
• Melvyn Bragg, Chris Baldick, A. N. Wilson, Emma Clery, "Gothic," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 04 January 2001.
  • Gothic fiction, Wikipedia.
  • Gothic Revival architecture, Wikipedia.
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  • Chris Baldick (b. 1954), Wikipedia.
  • Professor Chris Baldick, Department of English and Creative Writing, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
  • Chris Baldick. In Frankenstein’s Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Chris Baldick, editor. The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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  • A. N. Wilson (b. 1950), Wikipedia.
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  • Emma Clery, Department of English, Uppsala University.
  • Emma Clery, Twitter / X.
  • Emma Juliet Clery. The Writing of the Supernatural in Eighteenth-century Britain. University of Sussex, 1992.
    [Google Books.]
  • Emma Clery. The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • E. J. Clery. Women's Gothic: From Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2004.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • E. J. Clery. Jane Austen: The Banker's Sister. Biteback Publishing, 2017.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • E. J. Clery. Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Protest and Economic Crisis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    Clery's book focuses on the political poem by Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825) titled Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1811).
    By the way, Sense and Sensibility was published in 1811.

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Other Video :

You can find some (some, not much) insightful commentary on Jane Eyre (and other literary classics) on YouTube. For example:

• Octavia Cox, "Mr Rochester, Bertha Mason, Mrs Rochester, & NAMES | Charlotte Brontë JANE EYRE novel analysis", 2021.
• Octavia Cox, "Mr Rochester’s Charade—Marriage, Blanche Ingram, Bertha Mason, & Jane Eyre—Charlotte Brontë ANALYSIS", 2021.
• Benjamin McEvoy, "How to Read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë", 2023.

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Some other editions of Jane Eyre :

• Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre, Fourth Edition. Edited by Deborah Lutz. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. Edited by Stevie Davis. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. Edited by Stevie Davis. Penguin Clothbound Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2009.
  [Publisher; Amazon.com.]
• Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. Edited by Margaret Smith. Introduction by Juliette Atkinson. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Comments on the Karen Swallow Prior edition of Jane Eyre :

Professor Prior's Introduction and "Reflection Questions" are helpful. However, they are oriented towards reinforcing the faith of evangelical Christians and, if that is not your motivation for reading, that can be a little off-putting. On the other hand, she footnotes Biblical references which may be absent in other editions. I recommend readers get the Norton Critical Editions version instead.

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