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To Be or Not to Be

To Be or Not to Be

Bruster, Douglas

Hardcover

Series: Shakespeare Now!

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0826489974
ISBN13: 9780826489975
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Mar 23 2007
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.29 Depth: 8.07
Language: English
Hamlet's To be or not to be soliloquy is quoted more often than any other passage in Shakespeare. It is arguably the most famous speech in the Western world - though few of us can remember much about it. This book carefully unpacks the individual words, phrases and sentences of Hamlet's soliloquy in order to reveal how and why it has achieved its remarkable hold on our culture. Hamlet's speech asks us to ask some of the most serious questions there are regarding knowledge and existence. In it, Shakespeare also expands the limits of the English language. Douglas Bruster therefore reads Hamlet's famous speech in slow motion to highlight its material, philosophical and cultural meaning and its resonance for generations of actors, playgoers and readers.

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