Showing papers on "Hamlet (place) published in 2021"

Vygotsky’s Tragedy: Hamlet and the Psychology of Art:

Abstract: Lev S. Vygotsky is one of the major figures of psychology; however, his deep engagement with the arts is less known. This is surprising, given the fact that the arts, and especially Shakespeare’s H...

The First Quarto of Hamlet and its Performance in London, 2010–11

Abstract: Very little work has been done on how theatre directors employ, adapt and adopt the First Quarto of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in productions based on the “standard” Second Quarto and/or First Folio text...

The Tragedie Of Macbeth

Abstract: The Shakespearean Originals Series takes as its point of departure the question: "What is it that we read Shakespeare?" The answer may seem self-evident: we read the words that Shakespeare wrote. But do we? In the case of all the major editions of Shakespeare available in the market, the fact of the matter is that many of the words that we read in an edition of, say, Hamlet, never appeared in the text as it was printed during or shortly after Shakespeare's own lifetime. They are the interpetations and interpolations of a series of editors who have been systematically changing Shakespeare's text from the eighteenth century onwards. This volume offers the text of Macbeth, as printed in the 1623 First Folio.

From Doornfontein to Broadway: Black Hamlet Travels to America

Abstract: This article, based on archival research, discusses the discovery, origins, and genesis of a lost play by the Hollywood scriptwriter John Bright, written in collaboration with Wulf Sachs and derive...

Recreating hamlet: creativity of vishal bhardwaj in haider

Abstract: William Shakespeare’s plays are universal in human character, which have raised him to be the exemplar in film industry. Shakespeare’s works stand to the test of time due to their intrinsic quality of life-likeness as Arthur Koestler comments that life-likeness is regarded as the supreme criterion of art. Shakespeare’s works and films project the reality of human life. The universality of his works has motivated the film producers to adapt Shakespeare extensively in their films in different regions, nations and contexts. The adaptation of the literary text into filmic interface involves major creative restructuring between the original text and the filmic medium. The restructuring of the adaptation involves shift in the medium, genre, context and culture to suit the differences in area and medium. The director of a film needs to be highly creative to adapt a literary text to make a film. Vishal Bhardwaj is one such contemporary prolific film makers who have successfully adapted Shakespearean plays like Othello, Macbeth and Hamlet into Indian cinema. The research article tries to portray the creativity of a director to recreate a new film out of an existing text (filmic adaptation). The article analyses the concept of conceptual blending creativity process and bricolage in highlighting the creativity of Bhardwaj in adapting Hamlet and localizing it in Indian cinema as Haider (2014).

Building a development strategy towards community-based tourism (CBT) in Thekelan Hamlet

Abstract: Thekelan Hamlet, located in Batur, Getasan, Semarang Regency, has a suitable location as a tourism village. However, tourist activities have not involved the residents as a whole and only focus on enjoying natural tourism. The development of tourism with the concept of education in Thekelan Hamlet has the potential to increase residents’ income through the integration and development of local wisdom in Community Based Tourism (CBT). Thus, tourists can enjoy the beauty of nature and have the opportunity to interact with the lifestyle of its local community. The purpose of this study was to examine the existing conditions of the Thekelan Hamlet to develop a strategy for developing and managing the tourist village of Thekelan Village according to the concept of Community-Based Tourism (CBT). Based on the study results, it was found that Thekelan Hamlet has the carrying capacity as a tourist village in the form of local wisdom of its people, various tourist attractions, and active tourism activities. In developing Thekelan Hamlet tourism, strategies are formulated by integrating the strengths, weaknesses, potentials, and challenges of Thekelan as a tourist village and emphasizing the concept of Community-Based Tourism (CBT), for example, a collaboration between the community and local government, innovation in various service packages tourism and developing the quality of local human resources related to tourism.

Hamlet and Lucretian Anxiety

Abstract: Lucretius’s poem De rerum natura articulates a philosophy meant to help its adherents avoid anxiety and inner turmoil. Although Shakespeare was acquainted with and influenced by Lucretius, scholarship has neglected this influence upon Hamlet, a play whose title character is most famous for inner turmoil and melancholy. This essay argues that that the play has a Lucretian aspect, such that classical materialism is reflected in its tapestry of metaphysical anxieties. Besides Christian concerns about the afterlife, Prince Hamlet’s suffering may also, therefore, be understood in the context of a Lucretian ethics and science. Lucretius propounded a materialist view of the soul, and viewed death as the separation of the atoms of body and soul from each other. Thus, this essay points out certain scenes in the play which suggest or investigate atomic decomposition. In particular, the Gravedigger scene represents Lucretian-materialist attitudes toward death.

Comparing the Meaning Potential in Shakespeare and Manto through Speech Acts: A Discourse Pragmatic Study

Abstract: This paper attempts to explain the application of speech act theory (John Searle, 1976) on the soliloquies expressed by Hamlet and Keshulal Singh. The descriptive focus of this study is to draw attention to the felicity conditions whether they are being fulfilled by the speakers while making an utterance or not. Content analysis based on speech act theory is used for this paper. It has been pointed out that declaratives are less while directives are more applicable on these soliloquies, with the help of analysis. Hamlet and Keshulal’s inner self is being depicted through their speeches and it is analyzed that they are so much upset and are in the situation of to be or not to be that they do not know what should be their strategies, in taking their revenge. In actuality, they are trying to extinguish the storm which is bursting inside them through their soliloquies but by comparing the inner devastation of both characters. It is highlighted that Hamlet’s soliloquies are more self-explanatory than that of Keshulal because Hamlet makes vows, questions, deplores, and challenges the circumstances more than the Keshulal.

Hamlet Versus Othello: Or, Why the White Boy Keeps Winning

Abstract: This article examines the role of race in Shakespeare studies and, by extension, English Literature. The traditional view of Hamlet as a universal paradigm for humanity can be seen as a symptom of ...

“And Who Will Write Me?”: Maternalizing Networks of Remembrance in Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet

Abstract: Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning novel Hamnet explores the tradition that the death of Shakespeare’s son inaugurates the father’s play. Reopening Hamlet’s metaphorical grave, the novel brings its r...

Polonius as Anti-Close Reader: Toward a Poetics of the Putz

Abstract: In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the prince famously expresses a poetics and a theory of theater and of the arts, extolling, for example, a naturalistic method of acting. Less well known is that Polonius, the bungling and long-winded courtier, also expresses a poetics—albeit a poetics that the play, or at least Hamlet, constantly mocks. Polonius’s poetics offers a negative model, suggesting what the reception of art and literature and even the world should not be like. Polonius is an anti-close reader in that he leaps quickly to action (usually by imposing past, commonplace wisdom onto present situations) and claims a proto-empiricist distance from the objects of his study. What he consistently rejects is patient receptivity to the unknown particularity of poetry, people, and events.

Shakespeare in Jail. Hamlet in Rebibbia: from Stage to Live Streaming Performances

Abstract: “Since I have known art, this cell has turned into a prison” was the last line of Caesar Must Die , the film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani and winner of the Golden Bear for best film at the 62 nd Berlin International Film Festival. Now, after six years, the doors of Rebibbia open again to the world to let art in. The company of prodigious inmates/actors, directed by Fabio Cavalli, come back to Shakespeare in order to stage Hamlet in Rebibbia : the tragedy of revenge. If Caesar Must Die was a perfect blending of theatre and cinema, where everyday life in jail was mixed with theatre rehearsals, in an alternating montage of color and black and white scenes that culminated in a film disguised as filmed theatre, Hamlet in Rebibbia is a completely different kind of experiment. Hamlet is the universal symbol of the dialectic between Revenge and Justice and has a direct connection to the problems that dominate the prison context and the origins of many inmates. For this reason the tragedy perfectly suits the actors in the prison’s company and the place where it is staged. However, the aim of the director Fabio Cavalli was to bring the resulting play outside the jail. In order to reach as many people as possible, the play was shown all around the country through full-HD live streaming performances. Following the example of the National Theatre Live, Fabio Cavalli experimented with a new kind of theatre that, with the help of digital technologies, could go beyond the physical borders of the stage and meet cinema halfway. The aim of this paper is to take Hamlet in Rebibbia as a case study to investigate the relationship between theatre and cinema when one medium verges on the other in order to create a new, vibrant and meaningful work of art.

Detecting the Dead

Abstract: This chapter argues that the most modern texts discussed in the book are also some of the most focused on the past. Both Jonathan Stroud’s Lockwood books and Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series are obsessed by English history, but both are also very interested in fate, destiny and whether events are inevitable or can be affected by individual action. The past threatens to swamp the present, but the determined efforts of the central characters hold off that menace. At the same time, the fact that both series are steeped in literary allusion reminds us that in one sense, you cannot really read any detective novel until you have read some other detective novels, and preferably Hamlet, Macbeth and The Duchess of Malfi to boot.

Review of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Directed by Simon Godwin for the Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 8 June 2016. Shown as Part of “Culture in Quarantine” on BBC iPlayer, 23 April to 22 August 2020

Abstract: “Can we talk about Race in Hamlet?” asks literary scholar Peter Erickson.1 Using Simon Godwin’s Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production of Hamlet (2016), we can. Since its creation in 1961, the ...

Characters and Their Stories

Abstract: In this chapter, Eastman focuses on characters’ motivations (or how they want to be seen), their goals (or what they think they need to do, or have, in order to be seen that way), their flaws (or how they hurt themselves and other people) and their revelations (or how they learn to behave differently). It includes examples from The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, and others, as well as brief examples from non-Shakespearean works like Shawshank Redemption and Cool Hand Luke.

“To Be or Not To Be?”: Hamlet and Tyrannicide

Abstract: This essay considers Shakespeare through Aristotelianism and Thomism to explore Hamlet as a meditation on tyranny. Based on the classical model of tragedy as presented by Aristotle in his Poetics and further informed by his Ethics and Politics, the essay identifies the climax of the play in order to determine the playwright’s argument about what should have happened instead of what did—namely, the hero should have removed the tyrant Claudius when given the opportunity at Act 3, Scene 3. Shakespeare is deliberately and successfully upending the Aristotelian model, while yet fulfilling its definitions and expectations. The claim is further supported by Aquinas’s six conditions for the right use of anger and vengeance as found in his Summa Theologica. Hamlet’s choice not to act is highly significant—and ironically Shakespearean. The play’s treatment of tyranny may have been a call to action for Shakespeare’s contemporary audience.

Concepts of Life and Death in Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’

Abstract: No Dane of flesh and bone has been written so devoutly about as Hamlet, which is why he has lived the fate of only a few literary heroes who exist independently of texts and theatre. The tragic hero has become a metaphor in himself, which is why I will attempt to read and interpret Hamlet through the prism of conceptual metaphor theory. My prime interest will be invested in metaphorical representations of life and death perceived as target domains in the process of mapping. It is preoccupation with these abstract notions that gives somber color to the play, defines its mood of nihilism and disillusionment. Hamlet is the play with a high number of references to life, death, the afterlife, and human purpose so that metaphorical linguistic expressions that deal with these themes become corpus for the analysis in this paper. Conceptual metaphor analysis will reveal profound meanings of the selected lines, which are to be found beneath the level of language and syntax, in the sphere where conceptualization of the abstract occurs. Conceptual metaphor analysis may also help us get closer to Shakespeare the man since his unlimited consciousness is, at least to some extent, translated into Hamlet.

Follow the Ghosts: From Oedipus and Hamlet to Marx

Abstract: Sophocles’s tragedy Oedipus at Colonus provides the impetus to revisit the ghosts possessing the psyche of the Greek world as well as the function of the tragedies themselves. The author’s fascinat...

Myth, science and community: The archaeological project of San Lourenzo hillfort (Galicia, Spain)

Abstract: Every night a saint flees the Parish church of Cereixa, a small hamlet in Atlantic Europe. It rushes back to its home, upon the hillfort of San Lourenzo, an Iron-Age fortified settlement. Despite h...

Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider: A comparative analysis

Abstract: The element of tragedy in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet inspired Vishal Bhardwaj to come up with Haider. With this film, Bhardwaj completes his trilogy of Shakespearean tragic adaptations. Haider is...

Strengthening the Role of the Hamlet Head in Assisting the Tasks of the Village Head in Tongke-Tongke Village

Abstract: The quality of community services is one of the criteria that can be used as a reference to measure the success of the Village Government in carrying out its duties. On the other hand, community satisfaction with the services provided by the apparatus influences empowerment policies and the performance of the village government itself. This article describes the strengthening of the role of hamlet heads in assisting village heads in Tongke-Tongke Village, East Sinjai District. This research approach is qualitative. Data collection techniques are observation, interviews, and documentation. The data analysis technique was carried out using data reduction, data presentation, and concluding. From the results of the analysis, it was concluded that the strengthening of the role of the hamlet head in assisting the task of the village head in Tongke-Tongke Village, East Sinjai District had not run optimally. The hamlet head has not carried out his duties and functions optimally. The village head does not yet have a plan to strengthen the organization and does not dare to change the hamlet head who does not carry out his main duties and functions. The steps taken by the village head in dealing with these problems are to guide the hamlet head so that they can understand and carry out their duties and functions according to applicable regulations.

Thanatos in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Homer and Barker’s Achilles, Barnes and Saunders: Warding off Death before Release into the Unknown

Abstract: Bu makale, Achilles’den Shakespeare’in Hamlet’ine, cagdas yazarlar Julian Barnes ve George Saunders’e kadar olum olgusuna yaklasimlari tartismayi amaclar. Arastirmanin konusu olan yazarlarin eserleri, kader ve bilinmeyene gidisi kabullenmeden once nihai adaleti beklerken bile olumden kacinma veya onu kontrol etme arzusunu ortaya koyar. Hamlet’in babasinin araftaki hayaline olan ilgisi, daha sonra kendi sorunlari arasinda unutulur; Achilles erken ve sasali bir olumu kabul etmisken Hades’deki kaybolan yasantisinin yasini tutar. Barker ise onu, olumu kabullenmesine karsin oglunun gelecegini planlarken gosterir. Cagdas Saunders, Lincoln’in genc oglunun arafin esiginde tutulurken sonsuz kaderi, yargilanma ve sona ulasma icin onun cesaretlendirilmesini konu eder. Barnes’in arzularini tatmin edecek cennet ruyasi, aslinda boyle bir cennetin bile nihai olarak kotu oldugunu gosterir, yarattigi karakter bir anlam aramakta ve kendi kisiliginin tuzagina dusmektedir. Incelenen eserler gostermistir ki, kaleme alindiklari donemler farkli da olsa olumden neye mal olursa olsun kacinmaya calisir ama sonucta onu kabullenir ve mumkunse hayata nihai adaleti getirmesini umarlar.