Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Sunday, August 26, 2012
John Everett Millais, 'Ophelia', 1852, Tate Britain
John Everett Millais was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter and one of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founders, along with William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia_(painting)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia_(painting)
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Links to all three texts (includes rich text format and facsimiles)
Internet Shakespeare Editions has links to all three texts, as well as facsimiles from various libraries.
(The rest of the information on this site is perfunctory.)
KV
(The rest of the information on this site is perfunctory.)
KV
On Editing the "Three" Hamlets
"There are three printed versions of Hamlet:
- Q1 ("the Bad Quarto"), published in 1603.
- Q2 ("the Second Quarto"), published in 1604/5
- F1 ("the First Folio") published in 1623
Which of these three texts is 'correct'?
[M]ost readers would probably prefer just one version, the "original" Hamlet. They don't know that this "original" Hamlet does not exist. Some passages that we know so well can be found in Q1 or Q2 only, others only in F. Whatever version we read (or see performed) is an edited version, a conflation of these three first versions.
As an editor, one has to make choices in every line. In a critical edition the editor has to choose the version that will appear in the main text, and the other versions will then appear in small print (like footnotes) under the text. These decisions are not always easy."
Full article is linked here.
- Q1 ("the Bad Quarto"), published in 1603.
- Q2 ("the Second Quarto"), published in 1604/5
- F1 ("the First Folio") published in 1623
Which of these three texts is 'correct'?
[M]ost readers would probably prefer just one version, the "original" Hamlet. They don't know that this "original" Hamlet does not exist. Some passages that we know so well can be found in Q1 or Q2 only, others only in F. Whatever version we read (or see performed) is an edited version, a conflation of these three first versions.
As an editor, one has to make choices in every line. In a critical edition the editor has to choose the version that will appear in the main text, and the other versions will then appear in small print (like footnotes) under the text. These decisions are not always easy."
Full article is linked here.
Wanting to Kill (from The New York Times)
"I knew that my brother's killer was serving a life sentence in an Arizona state prison. I didn't want to confront him. I was in truth scared to death at the possibility, however remote. Here I was being sent to the same prison system as the man I wanted killed....
"It's easy enough to think about vengeance, even to declare a desire for it, but being confronted with the mechanics of murder is a different matter entirely. It forced me to examine my motives more closely, and to think about the sheer intimacy inherent in acts of violence."
Click here for the full article.
"It's easy enough to think about vengeance, even to declare a desire for it, but being confronted with the mechanics of murder is a different matter entirely. It forced me to examine my motives more closely, and to think about the sheer intimacy inherent in acts of violence."
Click here for the full article.
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