Author : Rhodri Lewis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0691204519
'Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness' is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in the English language. By exploring Shakespeare's engagements with the humanist traditions of early modern England and Europe, Rhodri Lewis reveals a 'Hamlet' unseen for centuries: an innovative, coherent, and exhilaratingly bleak tragedy in which the governing ideologies of Shakespeare's age are scrupulously upended.
Author : Coles notes
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 1998-09
Category : Shakespeare, William
ISBN : 9780774031974
Author : Harry Levin
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 39,84 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet
ISBN :
Author : Michael Neill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191036145
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy presents fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experienced actor. The opening section explores ways in which later generations of critics have shaped our idea of 'Shakespearean' tragedy, and addresses questions of genre by examining the playwright's inheritance from the classical and medieval past. The second section is devoted to current textual issues, while the third offers new critical readings of each of the tragedies. This is set beside a group of essays that deal with performance history, with screen productions, and with versions devised for the operatic stage, as well as with twentieth and twenty-first century re-workings of Shakespearean tragedy. The book's final section expands readers' awareness of Shakespeare's global reach, tracing histories of criticism and performance across Europe, the Americas, Australasia, the Middle East, Africa, India, and East Asia.
Author : Geoffrey H. Hartman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134964420
The theoretical ferment which has affected literary studies over the last decade has called into question traditional ways of thinking about, classifying and interpreting texts. Shakespeare has been not just the focus of a variety of divergent critical movements within recent years, but also increasingly the locus of emerging debates within, and with, theory itself. This collection of essays, written by distinguished and powerful critics in the fields of literary theory and Shakespeare studies, is intended both for those interested in Shakespeare and for those interested more generally in the emerging debates within contemporary criticism and theory.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 2022-03-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781638435020
Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0307950484
The figure of Hamlet haunts our culture like the Ghost haunts him. Arguably, no literary work, not even the Bible, is more familiar to us than Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Everyone knows at least six words from the play; often people know many more. Yet the play—Shakespeare’s longest—is more than “passing strange” and becomes deeply unfamiliar when considered closely. Reading Hamlet alongside other writers, philosophers, and psychoanalysts—Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Freud, Lacan, Nietzsche, Melville, and Joyce—Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster consider the political context and stakes of Shakespeare’s play, its relation to religion, the movement of desire, and the incapacity to love.
Author : Michelle Ray
Publisher : Poppy
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0316134422
Passion, romance, drama, humor, and tragedy intertwine in this compulsively readable Hamlet retelling, from the perspective of a strong-willed, modern-day Ophelia. Meet Ophelia, high school senior, daughter of the Danish king's most trusted adviser, and longtime girlfriend of Prince Hamlet of Denmark. She lives a glamorous life and has a royal social circle, and her beautiful face is splashed across magazines and television screens. But it comes with a price--her life is ruled not only by Hamlet's fame and his overbearing royal family but also by the paparazzi who hound them wherever they go. After the sudden and suspicious death of his father, the king, the devastatingly handsome Hamlet spirals dangerously toward madness, and Ophelia finds herself torn, with no one to turn to. All Ophelia wants is to live a normal life. But when you date a prince, you have to play your part. Ophelia rides out this crazy roller coaster life, and lives to tell her story in live television interviews.
Author : John Dover Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521091091
In this classic 1935 book, John Dover Wilson critiques Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 2006-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544187512
"To be or not to be" confounded by Shakespeare-that is the question. Hamlet is an action-packed thriller with apparitions, murder, revenge, deception, poisons, and diabolical traps. With timeless themes, it explores friendship, relationships, honor, fate, madness, and more. Now you can savor Hamlet in a modern, easy-to-understand translation that makes reading it quick and painless. Other aids make following the action and grasping the meaning a snap: A brief synopsis of the plot and action A comprehensive character list that describes the characteristics, motivations, and actions of each major player A visual character map that shows the relationships of major characters A cycle-of-death graphic that pinpoints the sequence of deaths and includes who dies, how they die, and why Reflective questions that help you understand the themes of the play With Shakespeare on the Double! Hamlet, you'll be enlightened instead of confounded.
