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To be or not to be / Douglas Bruster.

By: Series: Shakespeare now!Publication details: London, UK : Continuum, c2007.Description: ix, 108 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0826489982 (pbk.):
  • 9780826489975 (hbk.)
  • 0826489974 (hbk.)
  • 9780826489982 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR2807 .B77 2007
Contents:
In the Shakespeare Museum -- What are the Questions? -- There's the Rub -- How Does it Mean? (The Speech as Poem) -- The Name of Action (The Speech in Context) -- Not One Speech but Three, or 'There's the Point' -- Consummation (Some Conclusions).
Summary: Hamlet's 'To be or not to be' soliloquy is quoted more often than almost any other passage in Shakespeare. Part of the Shakespeare Now! series, this title takes this famous speech and looks at it's meaning to reveal the questions and problems it raises. It reads the individual words, phrases and sentences of Hamlet's speech in 'slow motion'. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
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Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection PR 2807 .B77 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 250567

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [105]-106) index.

Hamlet's 'To be or not to be' soliloquy is quoted more often than almost any other passage in Shakespeare. Part of the Shakespeare Now! series, this title takes this famous speech and looks at it's meaning to reveal the questions and problems it raises. It reads the individual words, phrases and sentences of Hamlet's speech in 'slow motion'. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

In the Shakespeare Museum -- What are the Questions? -- There's the Rub -- How Does it Mean? (The Speech as Poem) -- The Name of Action (The Speech in Context) -- Not One Speech but Three, or 'There's the Point' -- Consummation (Some Conclusions).

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