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Hamlet - the coup that failed

Abstract: Presents a psychoanalytic reinterpretation of Shakespeare's Hamlet which focuses on Hamlet's personality rather than viewing the play as representing the classic odipal struggle. The events of the play are evaluated in terms of the concepts of such theorists as K. Horney, E. FROMM, H. S. Sullivan, and others. Hamlet is seen as an alienated, destructive man with a psychopathic personality, bent upon obtaining revenge for his lost throne.

Hamlet and the Pirates: A Critical Reconsideration

Abstract: HE notion that Hamlet's rescue at sea by the pirates was not accidental has effectively been dismissed by critics ever since W. W. Lawrence deemed it "an absurd idea" on which "little time need be wasted."' Ever since I944, commentators on Hamlet have perpetuated the view that Shakespeare uses the intervention of the pirates as a deus-ex-machina device or, in Christian terms, as a providential event to bring about Hamlet's return to Denmark and prepare for his ultimate confrontation with Claudius. Thus, to cite one example, H. D. F. Kitto, in his famous essay on "Providence in Hamlet," characterizes the appearance of the pirate ship as a "lucky chance" in which, as in Hamlet's possession of his father's signet, "Heaven was ordinant."2 I would like to suggest that a close reading of the text will not permit this interpretation and that, indeed, the intervention of the pirates has been carefully prepared for by Shakespeare as part of the subterranean (and offstage) counterplotting by Hamlet which transpired during the course of Act III. In making this argument, I wish to emphasize the thematic importance of Hamlet's own role in effecting his rescue. It is at this point in the action that Hamlet commits himself irrevocably to premeditated bloodshed and vengeance. His plot to insure the murder of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is not just another rash act such as the killing of Polonius. In fact, this plot is Hamlet's most heinous offense, nothing short of cold and calculated murder. And it is this offense that eventually leads Hamlet to a new self-knowledge and to the inevitable tragic catastrophe.

"The Mirror up to Nature": Notes on Kozintsev's Hamlet

Abstract: Grigori Kozintsev's film of Hamlet re-invents Shakespeare's play by expanding the limitations of its stage reality in order to show us a more complete world. 1 Although many dramatic moments and Shakespearean effects translate easily to the screen,2 Kozintsev's interest in narrative breadth also re-dramatizes the play. The director's aesthetic sense is such that what we see is a surface activity and structure and a treatment of objects and of natural reality which impose a peculiarly lyrical counterpointing upon the tough, interiorizing force of Shakespeare's powerfully enigmatic drama. Further, the film includes and acknowledges a sensibility dependent upon the Russian novel of epic scope and significance, and, in selected sequences, upon the Russian school of film montage. But it is important to make a distinction here: the film does not conform to the characteristics of Soviet Socialist Realism, either by propagandizing man's struggle or harmony with the land or by removing focus from the individual in order to show or to dramatize his "collective" importance. In an effort to define some of the effects and effectiveness of this Hamlet, I should like to look at Kozintsev's treatment of reality, that is, how he sees and how he photographs objects and the natural world; at his use of spaces and rhythms; at his conception of Ophelia; and at his cinematic translation of the ritual and improvisational occasions3 of Shakespeare's play. From its opening shots the shadow of the castle tower against the sea, a slow pan over irregular stone surfaces, a burning torch the film insists upon showing us firm views of both the natural and the man-made world. Elsinore's castle is explicitly composed in space, its interiors ordered by deliberate

Goodbye Prince Hamlet: The New Australian Women's Poetry

Abstract: The review and analysis of several poems by various Australian women writers is discussed. Some of the other achievements and accomplishments of Australian women writers are highlighted.

Hamlet in Haiti: Style in Carpentier's the Kingdom of this World

Abstract: (1975). Hamlet in Haiti: Style in Carpentier's the Kingdom of this World. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 13-29.