Theater -text "Hamlet": A performance script edition.
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Title
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Theater -text "Hamlet": A performance script edition.
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Identifier
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AAI3014974
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identifier
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3014974
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Creator
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Kole, Robert.
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Contributor
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Includes supplementary digital materials | Adviser: W. Speed Hill
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Date
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2001
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Modern | Literature, English | Theater | Education, Language and Literature
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Abstract
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Theater-Text Hamlet provides its users with a CD-ROM that enables them to create a performance script of their own out of the three early texts of Hamlet---the First Quarto (1603), Second Quarto (1604), and First Folio (1623). Users access the three early texts in their original spelling and punctuation, virtually "unedited," and confront variant stage directions and scene order, as well as different speeches and punctuation. A multiple-text approach to Hamlet is important because differences between the three early texts reveal possibilities for performance---possibilities obscured by modern editions of the play.;This CD-ROM edition divides the early texts of Hamlet into parallel sections for comparison and provides comments that focus on the differences between the three texts---differences that create possibilities for performance. These comments can be viewed within a window that opens on the computer screen. (No special software or equipment is required.) Users are empowered to construct their own performance script from the options supplied by the three early texts. In three separate flies this CD-ROM edition also allows the user to read the individual early texts in their entirety.;In proposing a multiple-text approach for Hamlet, this Dissertation cites textual studies and theatrical practice and argues that theories about Shakespeare's intentions control the way most Hamlet editions are designed. Because single-text editions provide only one set of dramatic possibilities, users, especially those in the performing arts, should be free to edit their own version of Hamlet and create their own script for performance. Instead of confronting choices made in advance by editors, users should choose for themselves the speeches and punctuation, stage directions and scene order that best serve their needs and intentions.;For information about the latest version of Theater-Text Hamlet contact the editor at robertkole aol.com.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
