Hamlet (Penguin Popular Classics) [ペーパーバック]

A young prince meets with his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost's accusation, feigning wild madness while plotting a brutal revenge. But his apparent insanity soon begins to wreak havoc on innocent and guilty alike.

城に現われた父王の亡霊から、その死因が叔父の計略によるものであるという事実を告げられたデンマークの王子ハムレットは、固い復讐を誓う。道徳的で内向的な彼は、日夜狂気を装い懐疑の憂悶に悩みつつ、ついに復讐を遂げるが自らも毒刃に倒れる―。恋人の変貌に狂死する美しいオフィーリアとの悲恋を織りこみ、数々の名セリフを残したシェイクスピア悲劇の最高傑作である。 --このテキストは、 文庫 版に関連付けられています。

Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.

For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton

One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare's Hamlet is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. Now the first fully annotated version of Hamlet makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. It has been carefully assembled with students, teachers, and the general reader in mind. Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations provide readers with all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations. This version of Hamlet is unparalleled for its thoroughness and adherence to sound linguistic principles. In his Introduction, Raffel offers important background on the origins and previous versions of the Hamlet story, along with an analysis of the characters Hamlet and Ophelia. And in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom meditates on the originality of Shakespeare's achievement. The book also includes a careful selection of items for "Further Reading."
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The Annotated Shakespeare - General Editor, Burton Raffel
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born to John Shakespeare and mother Mary Arden some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote about 38 plays (the precise number is uncertain), a collection of sonnets and a variety of other poems.

シェイクスピア,ウィリアム
1564‐1616。ストラトフォード・オン・エイヴォンに生る。20歳頃出郷、初めロンドンで役者、後に座付作者として活躍。約37編の史劇・悲劇・喜劇を創作。詩作にも秀で、エリザベス朝ルネサンス文学の巨星となる。47歳で突如隠退、余生を故郷で送った

福田 恒存
1912‐1994。東京生れ。東大英文科卒。評論・翻訳・劇作・演出の各分野で精力的に活躍。芸術院会員(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです) --このテキストは、 文庫 版に関連付けられています。