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Hamlet (place)
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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: Al-Bassam et al. as mentioned in this paper presented an analysis of the Al-Hamlet Summit, an adaptation of Shakespeare's play The AlHamlet, in the context of Arab dramatists.
Abstract: This paper offers an analysis of Anglo-Kuwaiti dramatist Sulayman AlBassam’s celebrated adaptation The Al-Hamlet Summit, and situates the play into the history of Arable appropriations of Shakespeare. Despite the uneven development of theatre as a medium in Arab cultures, Shakespeare has been a familiar point of reference for Arab dramatists since the late 19th century. Received in the Middle East as a great icon of classical theatre, Shakespeare is there for writers to admire, emulate, imitate or challenge. Arab productions of Hamlet have taken different forms over the years: early productions produced a romantic Arab national hero, while later works from the 1970s onwards cast Hamlet as an impotent intellectual. Al-Bassam’s play fuses these traditions to bring Hamlet right up to date, as both a freedom fighter and a suicidal martyr. Al-Bassam’s adaptation modernises Shakespeare, demonstrating the capacity of his plays to speak about urgent issues of the present as well as indispensable meanings from the past.
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01 Aug 2013
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comparison of ancient, medieval, and modern contrast in the drama, the epic, and the novel, in the Dogmata critica.
Abstract: Preface Dogmata critica 1. The present undertaking 2. Othello 3. Parallels to this artificial but effective contrast, ancient, medieval, and modern, in the drama, the epic, and the novel 4. Macbeth 5. Hamlet 6. King Lear 7. Other tragedies 8. Comedy 9. Comedy and tragedy considered together 10. Conclusion Appendix Index.
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TL;DR: The excerpt from Aeneas' tale to Dido which Hamlet elicits from the Player is based in part on Marlowe's Dido Queen of Carthage, as a melodramatic description of the culmination of the Trojan war with the slaughter of Priam as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The excerpt from Aeneas' tale to Dido which Hamlet elicits from the Player is based in part on Marlowe's Dido Queen of Carthage . As a melodramatic description of the culmination of the Trojan war with the slaughter of Priam, the Player's speech appears to be specified by Hamlet because it recalls Old Hamlet's preceding account of his own murder — a report which figures Old Hamlet's body as an assailed citadel. These two accounts, with other Virgilian and contemporary allusions, associate the action and apparent inaction of Hamlet with the manoeuvres and stalemates of an extended siege war. Elizabethan land warfare was chiefly siege campaigning, and there was an extensive contemporary literature on this mode of conflict. Marrying Virgil's account of Troy to Renaissance siegecraft theory, Shakespeare makes the Aeneid and elements of contemporary warfare an entelechy of Hamlet .
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