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While giving due respect to the theatrical nature of the original play, she interprets the text in a careful, scholarly fashion. In the end, her interpetation of the play is persuasive, comprehensive, and ultimately profound. If anyone wishes to truly understand "Hamlet" in the way that Shakespeare must have intended it (and the way in which Elizabethans must have understod it), "Hamlet and Revenge" is certainly the best book on the market. (Another good book with a similar historical survey is Fredson Bowers' "Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy")
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Lavneder focuses on three of the great contemporary theatrical visionaries and places their working methods under a sharlply focused scholarly microscope. His remarks on Brook's working methods are particularly insightful when reading The Shifting Point concurrently.
This is a fine piece of work and one that any student of directing, contemporary theatre practice or indeed Shakespeare would do well to read.
Andy didn't pay me to say write this. Go buy it!
Davies gives a reading which is true to the original language, yet modern in tone and enunciation. Though the readings are faithful to Shakespeare's language, Davies' pacing and pitch is modern-so the listener follows the dialog as easily as if he or she were listening to persons talking on a TV program, for example. The high technical quality of the recording and the tape also contributes to the favorable listening experience. Because Davies' readings make the play so accessible, "Hamlet One Voice" could be used for classroom or individual student study of the play; although anyone interested in the play or exceptionally controlled and elucidating readings of literature would find this work rewarding.
Henry Berry, reviewer
The Small Press Book Review
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I bought this book from the publisher, via the Shakespeare-Oxford Society. I don't think I paid as much; seek them out.
This book should be in every library in creation. And your personal one.
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