An Overview of Hamlet Studies
An Overview of Hamlet Studies

Author: Manpreet Kaur Anand

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-07-08

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1527536521

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Hamlet Studies (1979-2003), an international journal devoted exclusively to one work of art, Hamlet, presented a vast wealth of research on Shakespeare’s play, contributions from well-established critics from across the globe. This book focuses on the critical contribution Hamlet Studies made to the play’s scholarship, bringing together textual criticism, twentieth century critical thought and performance-based contributions. It represents a valuable and comprehensive guide for students and teachers studying Shakespeare in colleges and universities the world over.

Hamlet
Hamlet

Author: Michael Davies

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2008-06-24

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 0826495915

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Designed for first year students, this innovative guide builds on the usual knowledge base of students beginning literary study in HE by focusing on the familiar characters but introducing more sophisticated analysis.

Hamlet's Choice
Hamlet's Choice

Author: Peter Lake

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2020-06-02

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0300247818

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An illuminating account of how Shakespeare worked through the tensions of Queen Elizabeth's England in two canon-defining plays Conspiracies and revolts simmered beneath the surface of Queen Elizabeth's reign. England was riven with tensions created by religious conflict and the prospect of dynastic crisis and regime change. In this rich, incisive account, Peter Lake reveals how in Titus Andronicus and Hamlet Shakespeare worked through a range of Tudor anxieties, including concerns about the nature of justice, resistance, and salvation. In both Hamlet and Titus the princes are faced with successions forged under questionable circumstances and they each have a choice: whether or not to resort to political violence. The unfolding action, Lake argues, is best understood in terms of contemporary debates about the legitimacy of resistance and the relation between religion and politics. Relating the plays to their broader political and polemical contexts, Lake sheds light on the nature of revenge, resistance, and religion in post-Reformation England.

Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness
Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness

Author: Rhodri Lewis

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0691204519

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'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.

Evolving Hamlet
Evolving Hamlet

Author: A. Fletcher

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-04-25

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0230118380

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Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our brains into adaptive social networks.

Shakespeare and the First Hamlet
Shakespeare and the First Hamlet

Author: Terri Bourus

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2022-06-10

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1800735553

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The first edition of Hamlet – often called ‘Q1’, shorthand for ‘first quarto’ – was published in 1603, in what we might regard as the early modern equivalent of a cheap paperback. Yet this early version of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is becoming increasingly canonical, not because there is universal agreement about what it is or what it means, but because more and more Shakespearians agree that it is worth arguing about. The essays in this collected volume explore the ways in which we might approach Q1’s Hamlet, from performance to book history, from Shakespeare’s relationships with his contemporaries to the shape of his whole career.

The Shakespearean Death Arts
The Shakespearean Death Arts

Author: William E. Engel

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-05-05

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 3030884902

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This is the first book to view Shakespeare’s plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural expressions of memento mori, funeral rituals, commemorative activities, and rhetorical techniques and strategies fundamental to the performance of the work of dying, death, and the dead. The volume is divided into two sections: first, critically nuanced examinations of Shakespeare’s corpus and then, second, of Hamlet exclusively as the ultimate proving ground of the death arts in practice. This book revitalizes discussion around key and enduring themes of mortality by reframing Shakespeare’s plays within a newly conceptualized historical category that posits a cultural divide—at once epistemological and phenomenological—between premodernity and the Enlightenment.

Shakespeare Studies
Shakespeare Studies

Author: J. Leeds Barroll

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780838636404

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Shakespeare Studies is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing more than three hundred pages of essays and studies by critics from both hemispheres.

Hamlet and Emotions
Hamlet and Emotions

Author: Paul Megna

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-02-01

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 3030037959

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This volume bears potent testimony, not only to the dense complexity of Hamlet’s emotional dynamics, but also to the enduring fascination that audiences, adaptors, and academics have with what may well be Shakespeare’s moodiest play. Its chapters explore emotion in Hamlet, as well as the myriad emotions surrounding Hamlet’s debts to the medieval past, its relationship to the cultural milieu in which it was produced, its celebrated performance history, and its profound impact beyond the early modern era. Its component chapters are not unified by a single methodological approach. Some deal with a single emotion in Hamlet, while others analyse the emotional trajectory of a single character, and still others focus on a given emotional expression (e.g., sighing or crying). Some bring modern methodologies for studying emotion to bear on Hamlet, others explore how Hamlet anticipates modern discourses on emotion, and still others ask how Hamlet itself can complicate and contribute to our current understanding of emotion.