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.

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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.
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• William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Third Edition. Edited by Philip Edwards. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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• William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Second Edition. Edited by Robert S. Miola. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.
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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.
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  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.
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• G. R. Hibbard. The Making of Shakespeare's Dramatic Poetry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981.
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• William Shakespeare. Love's Labour's Lost. Edited by G. R. Hibbard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990, 2008.
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  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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