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There's a Double Tongue: An Investigation Into the Translation of Shakespeare's Wordplay, with Special Reference to Hamlet

Abstract: The pun is as old as Babel, and inveterate punsters like Shakespeare clearly never lacked translators. This book critically examines the evergreen cliche that wordplay defies translation, replacing it by a theory and a case study that aim to come to grips with the reality of wordplay and its translation. What are the possible modes of wordplay translation? What are the various, sometimes conflicting constraints prompting translators in certain situations to go for one strategy rather than another? Ample illustration is provided from Hamlet and other Shakespearean texts and several Dutch, French, and German renderings. The study exemplifies how theory can usefully be integrated into a description-oriented approach to translation. Much of the argument also rests on the definition of wordplay as an open-ended and historically variable category. The book's concerns range from the linguistic and textual properties of Shakespeare's punning and its translation to matters of historical poetics and ideology. Its straightforward approach shows that discourse about wordplay doesn't need to rely on stylistic bravura or abstract speculation. The book is concluded by an anthology of the puns in Hamlet, including a brief semantic analysis of each and a generous selection of diverse translations.

Hamlet versus Lear: Cultural Politics and Shakespeare's Art

Abstract: This book focuses on the two plays of Shakespeare that have generally contended for the title of 'greatest' among his works. Hamlet remained a focal point of reference until about 1960, when it was displaced by King Lear, a play which at the same time ceased to be perceived as a play of redemption and became a play of despair. Foakes attempts to explain these shifts by analysing the reception of the plays since about 1800, an analysis which necessarily engages with the politics of the plays and the politics of criticism. Recent critical theorising has destabilised the texts and undermined the notion of 'greatness' or any consideration of the plays as works of art. Foakes takes issue with such theories and reconsiders textual revisions, in order to argue for the integrity of the plays as reading texts, and to recover a flexible sense of their artistry in relation to meaning. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of Shakespeare and to theatre-goers.

The Changing Fictions of Masculinity

Abstract: In a sensitive and provocative study of six great works of British literature, David Rosen traces the evolution of masculinity, inviting readers to contemplate the shifting joys and sorrows men have experienced throughout the last millennium, and the changing but constant tensions between their lives and ideals. Focusing on Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Hamlet, Paradise Lost, Hard Times, and Sons and Lovers, Rosen shows how the actions of heroes fail to resolve tensions between masculine ideals and male experiences.

Shakespeare comes to Broadmoor : 'the actors are come hither' : the performance of tragedy in a secure psychiatric hospital

Abstract: Part 1 Dramatis personae: audience - Broadmoor patients and staff, Trevor Walt actors - The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal National Theatre, Wilde Community Theatre Company title roles - Hamlet and Romeo, King Lear, From Gertrude to Regan directors - in search of Hamlet, "Men of Stones", "A Giant's Strength". Part 2 Stage directions: the setting - Broadmoor hospital, Harvey Gordon the set and stage management, Ian Bayne. Part 3 "Tempest in the Mind" - a collage of criticism. Part 4 Wilder horizons: projective aspects of performance, Alice Theilgaard the place of drama in custodial settings - responsibility, opportunity, risk, Dominic Barber the nature and limits of dramatherapy, Sue Jennings. Epilogue - reporting to the "Yet Unknowing World", Murray Cox.

Hamlet, Hales V. Petit, and the hysteresis of action

Abstract: Mode de representation, intention du sujet, pratique et action dans Hamlet: implications ideologiques et politiques.

The Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt : An Essay on Egyptian Religion and the Frame of Time

Abstract: The chief mystery about ancient Egyptian religion is that the historical and archaeological record presents us with a fully fledged religion - so what were its origins? The book "Hamlet's Mill" proposed that all primitive religion began with astral lore and observation of changing celestial phenomena. This book could be described as a detailed demonstration of the validity of this thesis in the case of Ancient Egyptian religion as the author demonstrates remarkable coincidences between celestial phenomena and Egyptian religious practices and literature.

Beyond Individualism: Names and Namelessness in Shakespeare

Abstract: "Remember me," the Ghost of Hamlet's father intones, an instance of the ritualistic desire of those in hell or purgatory not to be forgotten, like the Florentine Ciacco's appeal in the Inferno, "But when you move again among the living / oh speak my name to the memory of men" (6.88-89, trans. Ciardi). And Hamlet's response is not simply that of the obedient schoolboy revising his notes, nor is he merely employing one of the favored mnemonic systems that visualized writing on "places" in the mind.1

Horatio's ‘let me speak’: Narrative summary and summary narrative in hamlet

Abstract: Le commentaire d'Horace a la fin de la piece le met a la fois dans le double role du personnage et de l'apologist, du narrateur et du commentateur

"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun": fool-characters and comic dramatic structures in Hamlet, Twelfth night and Troilus and Cressida

Abstract: The thesis analyses fool-characters and comic structures in Shakespeare's three plays-each play representing a different dramatic genre. The chapter on Hamlet primarily focuses on Hamlet's fool-role originating from his "antic disposition." In Twelfth Night, the study examines the topsy-turvydom dominant in Olivia's household. Sir Toby Belch, as a Lord of Misrule, and Feste, as a professional jester, are the central characters in the analysis. In the chapter on Troilus and Cressida--a dramatic work frequently categorized as a "problem play"-the dramatic functions of two fool-characters, Pandarus and Thersites, are explored. The thesis examines the sources and theatrical traditions relevant to the analysed characters. It also investigates the various ways in which these characters create a counterweight to the social and political status quo of their respective plays, as a result of which they eventually become expelled, muted, or forced to adjust to the final social and political constellation emerging at the conclusion of the plays.

Exquisite agony: Desire for the other in Faulkner's the hamlet

Abstract: (1993). Exquisite agony: Desire for the other in Faulkner's the hamlet. Women's Studies: Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 485-496.

Brewer's dictionary of names : people & places & things

Abstract: This dictionary reveals the origins of familiar names from personal names to place names, brand names to astronomical names. It includes a broad selection of names of animals, mythological and literary characters, sports teams, languages, nationalities, political parties and pop and rock groups. It takes in the name of holidays and festivals, of schools and colleges, of battles and revolutions, and of well-known individual buildings such as clubs, hospitals, country houses, museums and theatres. It includes the origins of the names of famous individuals from Caesar to Sophocles, Homer to Ho chi Min. Names of famous fictional characters are also represented, such as Shakespeare's Desdemona and Hamlet as well as Kipling's Mowgli and A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh. Equally present are the titles of literary works and musical compositions such as Lavengro and Lohengrin. It includes an introduction providing background to different aspects of name studies and research and includes a guide to nearly 100 languages used in the dictionary from Afrikaans to Zyrian with notes on accents and alphabets.

Hamlet: Complete, Authoritative Text With Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Abstract: Introduction - Hamlet - A Critical History of Hamlet - What is Psychoanalytic Criticism? - A Psychoanalytic Perspective J. Adelman - What is Marxist Criticism? - A Marxist Critical Perspective M.D.Bristol - What is Feminist Criticism? - A Feminist Critical Perspective E.Showalter - What is Deconstruction? - A Deconstructionist Perspective M.Garber - What is New Historicism? - A New Historicist Perspective K.S.Coddon - Glossary

Shakespeare's Reception in 18th Century Italy: The Case of Hamlet

Abstract: The history of Shakespeare’s reception in 18th century Italy is a very scanty and fragmentary one. The aim of the present study is to attempt to join the scattered fragments of this mosaic together in a historic perspective stretching through the whole century and to try and interpret the resulting picture in the light of contemporary theories of comparative literature. Most of the emphasis will be placed on the role of the very few Italian worshippers of Shakespeare (Conti, Rolli, Baretti, Valentini, Verri) who were able to have a first-hand knowledge of his works. They can be seen as isolated receivers of a literary communication which was at the same time quite in advance in respect of average popular taste, and strongly antithetic to received Italian ideas of the period, dominated as they were by the dictatorship of French classicism. This means that not only the single receivers, with their different personalities, sensibilities and outlooks will be examined, but that also the objective conditions in which they found themselves, as well as the possibilities of reception afforded by the society in which they lived (particularly with regard to the transgression of the Aristotelian dramatic rules) will be considered. As a result, the link between literature and society in the specific situation of 18th century Italy will be made clearer and the relationship between these isolated receivers and their literary object (i.e. Shakespeare's works) will be better explained by enlarging the scope of the study from the history of Shakespeare's reception to a wider perspective of aesthetics of reception. A symbolic example of the general ignorance about Shakespeare in 18th century Italy is Ambleto. a "dramma per musica” written in 1705 by Apostolo Zeno, based on the same source as Hamlet. The author, one of the most committed intellectuals of the age, did not know anything about Hamlet and manipulated the same material Shakespeare had used in the way which would be most likely to be successful.

The Power of Selfhood: Shakespeare's Hamlet, Milton's Samson

Abstract: Post/modernite de la personnalite comme fondement de la resistance et source du pouvoir dans ces deux tragedies

The influence of rapier fencing on hamlet

Abstract: La presentation de Hamlet au debut des annees 1600 correspond a une grande vogue de l'escrime et du duel a l'epee. L'A. examine ici leur role dramaturgique et metaphorique

Stanisław Wyspiański as Proselytising Translator: National Directioning in his Polonisations of Hamlet and Le Cid

Abstract: (1993). Stanislaw Wyspianski as Proselytising Translator: National Directioning in his Polonisations of Hamlet and Le Cid. Canadian Slavonic Papers: Vol. 35, No. 3-4, pp. 305-328.

Hamlet as the minister of God to take vengeance

Abstract: Examen des sources bibliques de Shakespeare plaidant pour l' hendiadyn dans l'expresssion their scourge and minister dans Hamlet (III.iv)