title: More Scenes from Shakespeare: Twenty Cuttings for Acting and Directing Practice
author:  William Shakespeare 
description: Arguably the greatest English-language playwright, <b>William Shakespeare</b> was a seventeenth-century writer and dramatist, and is known as the Bard of Avon. Under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth I, he penned more than 30 plays, 154 sonnets, and numerous narrative poems and short verses. Equally accomplished in histories, tragedies, comedy, and romance, Shakespeare s most famous works include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, and As You Like It.
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  # HAMLET
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **The RSC Shakespeare**
  
  
  Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
  
  
  Chief Associate Editor: Héloïse Sénéchal
  
  
  Associate Editors: Trey Jansen, Eleanor Lowe, Lucy Munro, Dee Anna Phares, Jan
  Sewell
  
  
  **Hamlet**
  
  
  Textual editing: Eric Rasmussen
  
  
  Introduction and Shakespeare’s Career in the Theatre: Jonathan Bate
  
  
  Commentary: Héloïse Sénéchal
  
  
  Scene-by-Scene Analysis: Esme Miskimmin
  
  
  In Performance: Karin Brown (RSC stagings), Jan Sewell (overview), Jonathan
  Bate (captions)
  
  
  The Director’s Cut (interviews by Jonathan Bate and Kevin Wright): Ron
  Daniels, John Caird, Michael Boyd
  
  
  **Editorial Advisory Board**
  
  
  Gregory Doran, Chief Associate Director, Royal Shakespeare Company
  
  
  Jim Davis, Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Warwick, UK
  
  
  Charles Edelman, Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia
  
  
  Lukas Erne, Professor of Modern English Literature,  
  Université de Genève, Switzerland
  
  
  Maria Evans, Direc