Hamlet

by Peter Hobley Davison

This volume in the "Text & Performance" series shows how Hamlet works as drama and how the test is realized through performance.

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Professor Peter Hobley Davison, OBE, Ph.D., D.Litt., Hon. D. Arts, was formerly fellow of the Shakespeare institute and Professor of English at St David’s University College and the University of Kent, and is Senior Research Fellow in English and Media at De Montfort University, Leicester. As well as being the author of seven books and of numerous academic articles and reviews, he published editions of half a dozen plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Davison was considered an authority on the life and works of George Orwell and has published the Facsimile Edition of the manuscript of Nineteen Eighty-Four, as well as three collections. The final eleven volumes of his twenty-volume-edition of the Complete Works of George Orwell were published in 1998. From 1971 to 1982 he was editor of the journal of the Bibliographical Society, The Library, and from 1992 to 1994 was the Society’s President. He received the Society's Gold Medal in 2003.