| Author | : Paul A. Cantor |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Release Date | : 2004-05-13 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780521549370 |
| Pages | : 101 pages |
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| Author | : Hardin L. Aasand |
| Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
| Release Date | : 2003 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780838639467 |
| Pages | : 234 pages |
The subject of stage directions in 'Hamlet', those brief semiotic codes that are embellished by historical, theatrical, and cultural considerations, produces a rigorous examination in the fifteen essays contained in this collection. This volume encompasses essays that are guardedly inductive in their critical approaches, as well as those that critique modern productions that attempt to achieve Shakespearean effect through a modern aesthetic. The volume also includes essays that enunciate the production of stage business as a cultural interplay between productions and social agencies outside the theater.
| Author | : John Russell |
| Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
| Release Date | : 1995 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780874135336 |
| Pages | : 246 pages |
"Since Ernest Jones published Hamlet and Oedipus in 1949, psychoanalytic thinking has changed profoundly. This change, however, has not yet been adequately reflected in Shakespeare scholarship. In Hamlet and Narcissus, John Russell confronts the paradigm shift that has occurred in psychoanalysis and takes steps to formulate a critical instrument based on current psychoanalytic thinking. In his introduction, Russell clarifies Freud's assumptions concerning human motivation and development and then discusses, as representative of the new psychoanalytic paradigm, Margaret Mahler's theory of infant development and Heinz Kohut's theory of narcissism. Using these theories as his conceptual framework, Russell proceeds to analyze the action of Hamlet, focusing on the play's central problem, Hamlet's delay." "Previous psychoanalytic approaches to Hamlet have failed convincingly to explain the cause of Hamlet's delay because they failed to recognize the profound connection between Hamlet's pre-Oedipal attachment to his mother and his post-Oedipal allegiance to his father. By placing Hamlet's conflict with his parents in the new psychoanalytic framework of narcissism, Russell is able to show that Hamlet's post-Oedipal allegiance to his father and his pre-Oedipal attachment to his mother are driven by the same archaic and illusory needs. Though on the surface seeming to contradict one another, at bottom Hamlet's two attachments, to mother and to father, complement one another and work together to produce in Hamlet a conflicted ambivalence that propels him to his self-induced destruction. By clarifying the origin and effects of Hamlet's archaic narcissism, Russell is able to solve the problem of Hamlet's delay and forge a new and fruitful instrument of literary criticism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
| Author | : Marvin Rosenberg |
| Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
| Release Date | : 1992 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780874134803 |
| Pages | : 971 pages |
Hamlet's challenge: "You would pluck out the heart of my mystery - " Yes, we would. If we could. We can but try; and the best way to begin, this book suggests, is to share what distinguished actors, scholars, and critics have gleaned; and thus enriched by their experience forage in the text and come to know the play personally, intimately. Again and again Mr. Rosenberg will insist that only the individual reader or actor can determine Shakespeare's design of Hamlet's character - and of the play. More, the reader, to interpret Hamlet's words and actions at the many crises, needs to double in the role of actor, imagining the character from the inside as well as observing it from the outside. So every reader is deputed by the author to be an actor-reader, invited to participate within Hamlet's mystery. The critical moments are examined, the options and ambiguities discussed, and the decisions left to individual judgment and intuition. The mysteries of other major characters are similarly approached. What terrible sin haunts Gertrude, that she never confesses? What agonies hide behind Claudius' smile? Does Ophelia truly love Hamlet? Does she choose madness? What are Polonius' masked motives, as in using his daughter for bait for Hamlet? With how much effort must Laertes repress the conscience that finally torments him? Only the actor-reader can know. And the mystery of the play itself: by what magic did Shakespeare interweave poetic language, character, and stage action to create a drama that for centuries has absorbed the attention and admiration of readers and theatre audiences on every continent in the world? The reader-actor will find out. To prepare the actor-reader for insights, Mr. Rosenberg draws on major interpretations of the play worldwide, in theatre and in criticism, wherever possible from the first known performances to the present day. He discusses evidences of Hamlet's experience in Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Africa, South America, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Yugoslavia. Theatres from a number of these countries provided the author with videotapes of their Hamlet performances; his study of these, and of films and recordings, and of a number of modern stagings in America and abroad, deepened his sense of the play, as did interviews with actors and directors, and insights sent to him by colleagues and friends from throughout the world. Mr. Rosenberg followed one Hamlet production through rehearsals to performance, for personal experience of the staging of the play he discusses, as he did in his earlier books, The Masks of Othello, The Masks of King Lear, and The Masks of Macbeth . And as with the latter two studies, he came upon further illuminations of Shakespeare's art by exposing Hamlet to "naive" spectators who had never read or seen the play.
| Author | : John O'Meara |
| Publisher | : Guernica Editions |
| Release Date | : 1991 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780920717509 |
| Pages | : 112 pages |
No other book on Hamlet has yet to consider the way in which the play in its four major aspects of Sorrow, Sexuality, Revenge, and Death, consistently reflects the otherworldly direction of Hamlet's thought and experience ... the elegant and subtle prose lends force and dignity to the argument ... a remarkable and provocative contribution to Shakespeare Studies. {Corona Sharp, English Studies in Canada}
Learn Shakespeare fast! This is the first in a line of high-quality, next generation Shakespeare study guides featuring - A reading of the play on two audio CDs - High-impact graphics - Beautifully illustrated scene summaries - Dramatic maps of the action Created for university and high school students, this ground-breaking guidebook was featured in the Aug. issue of Publishers Weekly.
| Author | : Eric P. Levy |
| Publisher | : Associated University Presse |
| Release Date | : 2008 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780838641392 |
| Pages | : 256 pages |
This book isolates the conceptual apparatus dominant in the world of the play. It traces the play's origins, including those pertaining to Christian Humanism and the Aristotelian-Thomist synthesis with its assumption of "the sovereignty of reason." The book also analyzes how and in what respects this conceptual apparatus construes the human act or "what is a man." It tracks the ways in which the play subjects the components of this apparatus to dramatic conflict that reveals their inherent paradoxes and contradictions, as well as explicating the new conceptual dispensation that results from this disintegration, including its intellectual and moral implications. Finally, it addresses the factors tending, even after dismantlement, to reconstitute and encourage reversion to the former dispensation. The concern of such inquiry is to show how intellectual tools for formulating the meaning of human experience and the interpretation of character undergo penetrating critique and eventual displacement. Eric P. Levy is an Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia.
| Author | : John Draper |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Release Date | : 1967-05 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780714610276 |
| Pages | : 254 pages |
First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : Harold Bloom,William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
| Release Date | : 2009 |
| ISBN 10 | : 1438129343 |
| Pages | : 221 pages |
Presents a collection of critical essays about William Shakespeare's play, "Hamlet."
| Author | : Martin Scofield |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Release Date | : 1980-11-27 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0521227356 |
| Pages | : 202 pages |
This study approaches Hamlet through its influence on the work of some writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
| Author | : J. Dover Wilson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Release Date | : 1959 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780521091091 |
| Pages | : 357 pages |
A scholarly examination of the plot and dramatic technique of Shakespeare's most controversial play
In Shakespeare's powerful drama of destiny and revenge, Hamlet, the troubled prince of Denmark, must overcome his own self-doubt and avenge the murder of his father. Contains a selection of the finest criticism through the centuries on Hamlet, as well as a biography on Shakespeare.
| Author | : Joanne K. Miller |
| Publisher | : Research & Education Assoc. |
| Release Date | : 1994-01-01 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780738673004 |
| Pages | : 110 pages |
REA's MAXnotes for William Shakespeare's Hamlet The MAXnotes offers a comprehensive summary and analysis of Hamlet and a biography of William Shakespeare. Places the events of the play in historical context and discusses each act in detail. Includes study questions and answers along with topics for papers and sample outlines.
In this illuminating study, Anthony Dawson surveys the stage history of Hamlet from its appearance in Shakespeare’s time to the efflorescence of new and challenging productions in our own. He vividly re-creates more than a dozen representative performances across three centuries. Bringing together theatre history and the interests of cultural criticism and performance theory, Dawson traces the Anglo-American acting tradition and provides a succinct account of the interpretative problems associated with texts, character, design, and the production of meaning. The final chapters extend the analysis to a number of film versions, notably those of Olivier, Kozintsev and Zeffirelli, as well as to several important European stage productions.
| Author | : Alan R. Young |
| Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
| Release Date | : 2002 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780874137941 |
| Pages | : 405 pages |
This book examines the manner in which Shakespeare's Hamlet was perceived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and represented in the available visual media. The more than 2,000 visual images of Hamlet that the author has identified both reflected the critical reception of the play and simultaneously influenced the history of the ever-changing constructed cultural phenomenon that we refer to as Shakespeare. The visual material considered in this study offers a unique perspective that complements biographical, critical, and theater history studies by showing how a broad spectrum of the literate and not-so-literate absorbed and responded to Shakespeare's works, not necessarily in academic libraries or at play performances, but in their homes, when browsing in print shops, when reading in coffee houses, or (a far rarer experience) when visiting an art gallery or exhibition.
| Author | : Alex Newell |
| Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
| Release Date | : 1991 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780838634042 |
| Pages | : 190 pages |
This work defines the dramatic rationale of the Hamlet soliloquies in their dramatic contexts, thereby clarifying the tragic idea that organizes the play.
| Author | : Lewisburg and Selinsgrove Bucknell-Susquehanna Colloquium on 'Hamlet" 1973,Bucknell-Susquehanna Colloquium on Hamlet |
| Publisher | : Associated University Presse |
| Release Date | : 1975 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780838715734 |
| Pages | : 246 pages |
Prefaces literary, psychological, and theatrical studies of Shakespeare's celebrated tragedy with a discussion of its sources and evolution.