Modern Hamlets & Soliloquies: An Expanded Edition

by Mary Z. Maher

Overview

In Modern Hamlets and Their Soliloquies (Iowa, 1992), Mary Maher examined how modern actors have chosen to perform Hamlet’s soliloquies, and why they made the choices they made, within the context of their specific productions of the play.

Adding to original interviews with, among others, Derek Jacobi, David Warner, Kevin Kline, and Ben Kingsley, Modern Hamlets and Their Soliloquies: An Expanded Edition offers two new and insightful interviews, one with Kenneth Branagh, focusing on his 1997 film production of the play, and one with Simon Russell Beale, discussing his 2000-2001 run as Hamlet at the Royal National Theatre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587291364
Publisher:	University of Iowa Press
Publication date:	03/01/1995
Series:	Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	258
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Mary Maher is professor emerita at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She worked on the Time/Life BBC “The Shakespeare Play” series and has published numerous scholarly articles on Shakespeare film and video.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Foreword Andrews John F.
Introduction
Hamlet's Soliloquies
1. The Glass of Fashion GIELGUD JOHN
2. The Mould of Form GUINNESS ALEC OLIVIER LAURENCE BURTON RICHARD
3. The Rogue and Peasant Slave WARNER DAVID
4. In My Mind's Eye KINGSLEY BEN
5. The Courtier, Soldier, Scholar JACOBI DEREK
6. A Noble Mind LESSER ANTON
7. Th' Observ'd of All Observers RINTOUL DAVID
8. Sir, a Whole History KIM RANDALL DUK
9. In Action How Like an Angel KLINE KEVIN
10. Speak, I Am Bound to Hear BRANAGH KENNETH
11. The Motive and the Cue for Passion BEALE SIMON RUSSELL
Notes