This edition of Shakespeare's classic play presents the 1974 text edited by G. Blakemore Evans from The Riverside Shakespeare (complete with footnotes, glosses, and textual notes) along with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised for a student audience - that read Hamlet from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective, and a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach.

The text and essays are further complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts to Shakespeare and Hamlet, a survey of critical responses to the play since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.


此版莎士比亞經典戲劇基於 1974 年葛雯．博利格．伊凡斯編輯的《河岸本莎士比亞》，重新撰寫及修改，適合學生閱讀（書中有完整的註腳、註釋以及文本註解）。書中附有 5 篇散文，皆為評論哈姆雷特的重要觀點，每篇評論散文除了附有對歷史、原理以及重要觀點的簡明介紹，也在書目中提供了各種觀點的參考資料，讓讀者能夠深入探究。

文本內容與文章也補充了莎士比亞的生平及歷史背景，從哈姆雷特出版一路至今的重要迴響，以及各種評論與論述的詞彙表。