Hamlet

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Author : William Shakespeare
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Release : 1877
File : 508 Pages
ISBN-13 : IND:30000086815572


Histrionic Hamlet

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According to psychological research on acting, the histrionic personality consists of a compulsive tendency to play-act, exaggerate emotions, succumb to illusions, seek attention through speech, body language and costume, to be seductive and impulsive. An original intervention in the critical history of Shakespeare’s most famous play, Histrionic Hamlet argues that the Danish Prince is a stage representation of just such a personality—a born actor and a drama queen rather than a politician—incongruously thrown in the middle of ruthless high-stakes power struggle requiring pragmatic rather than theatrical skills. Uniquely among other English revenge tragedies, in Hamlet a histrionic protagonist striking a series of gratuitous, baffling, self-indulgent, and counterproductive poses is called upon to carry out a challenging and brutal political task, which he spectacularly and tragically mismanages. Unable to perform on a theatrical stage as a professional actor, the Clown Prince bitterly play acts anyway, turning all situations into opportunities of pretend play rather than effective political action. In consequence he wastes tactical advantages over his enemies, endangers himself, and jeopardizes his revenge plan, if ever there was one. Histrionic Hamlet should be of interest to students of Shakespeare, theater practitioners, and anyone interested in human dysfunctional and maladaptive behavior.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Piotr Sadowski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release : 2024-09-18
File : 244 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781040127421


Hamlet Manual

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Make Shakespeare?s Hamlet come alive for your students! This manual is filled with background information on Shakespeare and his theatre, suggestions for teaching and producing the play, summaries of every scene, and questions and answers for every act. You?ll also find an annotated bibliography, a guide to pronouncing proper names, a Shakespearean time line, and a glossary of terms. For the best experience, use this manual alongside the Access to Shakespeare edition of Hamlet.

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Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Author : Jonnie Patricia Mobley
Publisher : Lorenz Educational Press
Release : 2010-09-01
File : 50 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780787780319


The Hamlet Doctrine

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Arguably, no literary work is more familiar to us than Shakespeare's most famous tragedy. Everyone can quote at least six words from the play; often people know many more. In this riveting and thought-provoking re-examination, philosopher Simon Critchley and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster explore Hamlet's continued relevance for a modern world no less troubled by existential anxieties than Elizabethan London. Reading the drama alongside writers, philosophers and psychoanalysts-Schmitt, Benjamin, Freud, Lacan, Nietzsche, Melville, and Joyce-the authors delve into the politics of the era, the play's relationship to religion, the exigencies of desire and the incapacity to love. It is an intellectual investigation that leads to a startling conclusion: Hamlet is a play about nothing in which Ophelia emerges as the true hero. From the illusion of theatre and the spectacle of statecraft to the psychological theatre of inhibition and emotion, what Hamlet makes manifest is the modern paradox of our lives: where we know, we cannot act. The Hamlet Doctrine is a passionate encounter with a great work of literature that continues to speak to us across centuries.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Verso Books
Release : 2013-09-10
File : 262 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781781682579


Hamlet

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Shakespeare
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Release : 2023-03-16
File : 502 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783382136215


What Happens In Hamlet

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In this classic 1935 book, John Dover Wilson critiques Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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Genre : Drama
Author : John Dover Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 1959
File : 384 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521091098


Hamlet

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The core of the ground-breaking, three text edition, this self-contained, free-standing volume gives readers the Second Quarto text (1604-5) and includes in its Introduction, notes and Appendices all the reader might expect to find in any standard Arden edition. As well as a full, illustrated Introduction to the play's historical, cultural and performance contexts and a thorough survey of critical approaches to the play, an appendix contains the additional passages found only in the 1623 text."The new Arden Hamlet is a pathbreaking edition, one that promises to change irrevocably our understanding of Shakespeare's greatest play."- Professor James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare'Hamlet's latest editors have undertaken a heroic task with great skill and thoroughnesss.' - Stanley Wells, The Observer"(The) new Arden Hamlet is quite simply the most comprehensive edition of the play currently available, a status I suspect it will enjoy for many years to come" - The British Theatre Guide"Stunning! There is absolutely no doubt about this being the text to buy if you are studying the play at A Level. And the same stands for those students who will be studying the play at university. This critical edition gives the reader the Second Quarto Text (1604-1605), annotated with intelligence and care, a wealth of historical and cultural references and a survey of different critical approaches to the play."- The Use of English, The English Association

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Genre : Drama
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release : 2014-09-25
File : 636 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781408142882


Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

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Vale Ferne was born in China, from where her family moved from another country; and now lives in Canada. Shakespeare captured her interest early in life, and a reading of Hamlet at a night school in Toronto intensified it. Others of her favorite writers are J.J. Rousseau, L.G. Byron and J.L. Borges. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Thought Quarter'd is her first book. In Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A thought Quarter’d Vale Ferne offers her own radical, fresh and witty reading of Shakespeare’s play in the light of the legendary history of Denmark. She goes beyond “deconstruction” to “reconstruction,” splitting and combining Shakespeare’s characters to create a whole new cast of her own. Her new version is a true Jeu d’esprit that can be read entirely for itself yet offers provocative insights into Shakespeare’s play. Enjoy!

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Genre : Literary Collections
Author : Vale Ferne
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Release : 2009-06-19
File : 510 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781452033792


A New Variorum Edition Of Shakespeare Hamlet 1877

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Author : William Shakespeare
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Release : 1877
File : 502 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:HWE2N9


Hamlet In Analysis

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This novel, originally entitled A Trial of Faith, is an exploration of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the form of a novel tracing the course of a Kleinian analysis. It is an experiment in literary criticism as much as in fiction, and was written in collaboration with the psychoanalyst Donald Meltzer, who supervised each weekly chapter as it was written, from an analyst’s perspective. The intention was to be faithful to the psychoanalytic process as well as to the aesthetic implications of Shakespeare’s play. The narrator and analyst is Horatio, whom Hamlet in the play asks to “tell his story” – the story of an adolescent break-down. Hamlet as a character invites an unusually close form of identification: as Hazlitt put it, “It is we who are Hamlet.” Horatio’s countertransference as one who is supposed to “suffer all yet suffer nothing” places him in a vulnerable and testing situation that tempts him towards breaches of technique. The novel, like the play (in my view) is structured around a series of dreams that Hamlet recounts to Horatio. Meanwhile the underlying preoccupation with playing-as-reality highlights some intriguing implications of Shakespeare’s own mid-career struggles as a dramatist: concerning the relation between genre, analysand-protagonist and analyst-playwright. The present revised edition of the novel includes a new introduction, some minor changes to the text, and the insertion of more quotations to mark the source of the emotional conflict. Such markers also illustrate the dreamlike and turbulent reading process of writing literary criticism, which entails not the deconstruction but (as was said of Ophelia) the “unshaping” of language in a way that “botches up words to fit the hearer’s own thoughts”. It is for readers to judge whether or not the current botching speaks to their own feelings stirred by Shakespeare’s play and helps to make sense of the reactions aroused in we who are Hamlet.

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Genre : Psychology
Author : Meg Harris Williams
Publisher : Harris Meltzer Trust
Release : 2020-02-29
File : 250 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781781813775