Douglas Bruster

To Be or Not to Be

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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 ma… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4411-2500-2
EAN: 9781441125002
Produktnummer: 13832887
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 128 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 8'979 KB

Über den Autor

Douglas Bruster is Professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is the author of Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare; Quoting Shakespeare; Shakespeare and the Question of Culture; and, with Robert Weimann, Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre.