Evans, Maurice

Garden City. 1946. Doubleday. 1st of this Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. With a Preface by Mr. Evans. Illustrated with 16 photographs of scenes from the play, and 10 designer's sketches by Frederick Stover. 191 pages. hardcover. . Inscribed by Maurice Evans. keywords: Drama Shakespeare Acting Hamlet. FROM THE PUBLISHER - HERE IS a Hamlet who speaks in a voice understandable to our time. When Maurice Evans conceived the idea of touring overseas camps with Hamlet, he realized that he had to present to our troops a prince they could comprehend. And he did. By retaining the cardinal points of plot and character development while judiciously. eliminating passages and odd lines that had more significance to an Elizabethan audience than to us, Mr. Evans created a taut and swift play and made Hamlet a vital individual who won the sympathy and admiration of our fighting men. The success of the play in the Pacific was but the forerunner of a triumphant Broadway run that broke all Hamlet box-office records. The splendid interpretation Mr. Evans achieved carries over completely to the book. The editing and the copious, vivid director's notes make it extremely readable Shakespeare - a perfect version for a first introduction to Hamlet as well as an engrossing study for the most erudite scholar. � inventory #28573