Re: What are you reading, right now...
Do you mean translated from English into Spanish? Or the other way around? You're reading Shakespeare in Spanish?
If you are reading the play in English then at least have a peak at the versions below for background. Even if you don't buy 'em.
Re collected works, the RIverside Edition is the usual American one, I believe. But Oxford and the RSC are interesting. And affordable in paperback.
The Arden Third Series have now published each of the three versions of Hamlet, which is interesting. What we usually read/get is a conflated text, or one of the longer and later versions.
http://www.amazon.com/Hamlet-Arden-S...3&sr=1-1-spell
http://www.amazon.com/Hamlet-Texts-T...3&sr=1-2-spell
http://www.amazon.com/Riverside-Shak...sr=1-2-catcorr
The earliest edition, 1603, appears to be a shorter 'stage' version but nobody knows for sure, and longer versions appeared in 1604/5 and 1623 .... the earliest is a quick/fast stripped down version of the play, it has its own charm, and then you have two similar longer versions, 4 hours of material when acted, often with minor cuts.
The shorter version was always seen as a piratical copy and inferior, taken down in performance perhaps back in the day, but now it's a moot point. It may just be a poor copy of what was seen on the stage.
It's a good way to read/approach Hamlet esp. for those interested in screenwriting, because you get the feeling that scripts were adjusted for the stage, performance, which makes sense, like a director's cut, you may lose speed in the longer version but gain depth or characterisation or other twists and turns and perceptions.
Originally posted by Dr. Vergerus
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Do you mean translated from English into Spanish? Or the other way around? You're reading Shakespeare in Spanish?
If you are reading the play in English then at least have a peak at the versions below for background. Even if you don't buy 'em.
Re collected works, the RIverside Edition is the usual American one, I believe. But Oxford and the RSC are interesting. And affordable in paperback.
The Arden Third Series have now published each of the three versions of Hamlet, which is interesting. What we usually read/get is a conflated text, or one of the longer and later versions.
http://www.amazon.com/Hamlet-Arden-S...3&sr=1-1-spell
http://www.amazon.com/Hamlet-Texts-T...3&sr=1-2-spell
http://www.amazon.com/Riverside-Shak...sr=1-2-catcorr
The earliest edition, 1603, appears to be a shorter 'stage' version but nobody knows for sure, and longer versions appeared in 1604/5 and 1623 .... the earliest is a quick/fast stripped down version of the play, it has its own charm, and then you have two similar longer versions, 4 hours of material when acted, often with minor cuts.
The shorter version was always seen as a piratical copy and inferior, taken down in performance perhaps back in the day, but now it's a moot point. It may just be a poor copy of what was seen on the stage.
It's a good way to read/approach Hamlet esp. for those interested in screenwriting, because you get the feeling that scripts were adjusted for the stage, performance, which makes sense, like a director's cut, you may lose speed in the longer version but gain depth or characterisation or other twists and turns and perceptions.
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