Format:
Online-Ressource (183 p)
ISBN:
9780415732840
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Hamlet
Content:
""But in a fiction, in a dream of passion..."" In an extended commentary on this passage this book offers a rationale for the excellence and primacy of this play among the tragedies. Throughout, emphasis is placed on Hamlet's fantasies and imaginations rather than on ethical criteria, and on the depiction of Hamlet as a revenge play through an exploration of its dark and mysterious aspects.The book stresses the importance of Passion and Its Fictions in the play and attempts to explore the very Pirandellian topic of Hamlet's passion and dream of passion. It goes on to examine the organization o
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Hamlet's Fictions; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I Passion and Its Fictions; 1 Hamlet's dream of passion; 2 How Pirandellian is Shakespeare?; 3 Ophelia and other madwomen in Elizabethan plays; 4 Hamlet's O-groans and textual criticism; Part II The Organization and Disposition of Dramatic Energies; 5 Analogy and infinite regress; 6 The exact middle of Hamlet; 7 Scene rows, broken scenes, and impacted scenes; Part III Conventions of Staging, Imagery, and Genre
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8 The stage situation of asides, soliloquies, and offstage speech9 The imagery of skin disease and sealing; 10 Hamlet as comedy; Conclusion; Notes; Index
Additional Edition:
9781317814436
Additional Edition:
Print version Hamlet's Fictions
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
