Hamlet: An authoritative text, intellectual backgrounds, extracts from the sources, essays in criticism
/ by William Shakespeare
- 2nd ed.
- New York: W.W. Norton, 1992.
- XII, 297p.; 22 cm.
- A Norton Critical Edition .
Based on the second quarto, with occasional reference to the folio, this work includes readings on melancholy, demonology, the nature of man and death, pre-Shakespearean accounts of the story of Hamlet and historical extracts. This edition offers the latest critical interpretations of "Hamlet".