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Hamlet (place)
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TL;DR: The character of Claudius dominates post-1975 Arabic adaptations of Shakespeare's Hamlet as discussed by the authors, and the plays are not "political in function": they do not work to build audience support for political change.
Abstract: The character of Claudius dominates post-1975 Arabic adaptations of Shakespeare's Hamlet. After a brief survey of the twentieth-century Arab Hamlet tradition, this essay examines five recent Arab Hamlet plays. In four Arabic-language plays, a hypertrophied Claudius plainly allegorizes contemporary or recent regimes in Iraq, Syria, and Egypt. He displaces both Hamlet and the Ghost, who become weak characters. Recurrent animal imagery portrays him as literally a brute, lacking a conscience and impervious to reason. However, this essay argues, the plays are not "political in function": they do not work to build audience support for political change. Instead, Claudius' irresistible power demonstrates the futility of political action (in the Aristotelian sense), including political theatre. A recent Arab-themed Hamlet adaptation in English con firms the pattern but enlarges it to cover the international backers of the local tyrant. Rather than a call for political awakening, then, these five plays offer a dark meditation on the limits of politics.
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06 Jul 2017TL;DR: This paper explored how Shakespeare used language to interact with the verbal marketplace of early modern England and argued that we can best understand Shakespeare's writing practice by scrutinizing how the formal features of his works circulated in an economy of imaginative writing.
Abstract: Making innovative use of digital and library archives, this book explores how Shakespeare used language to interact with the verbal marketplace of early modern England. By also combining word history with book history, Jonathan P. Lamb demonstrates Shakespeare's response to the world of words around him, in and through the formal features of his works. In chapters that focus on particular rhetorical features in Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Hamlet, and Troilus and Cressida, Lamb argues that we can best understand Shakespeare's writing practice by scrutinizing how the formal features of his works circulated in an economy of imaginative writing. Shakespeare's interactions with this verbal market preceded and made possible his reputation as a playwright and dramatist. He was, in his time, a great buyer and seller of words.
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TL;DR: In most representations of the Annunciation, the Virgin sits holding an open book of devotion to represent her piety and her devotion to God, and either she kneels or stands near it as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: In most representations of the Annunciation, the Virgin sits holding an open book of devotion to represent her piety and her devotion to God. Alternatively she kneels or stands near it.2 This whole tradition and not merely the held book of devotion is presumably the "devotion's visage" that will color Ophelia's acting here. That Ophelia's "pious action" is false against the Virgin's true partly explains why Polonius then refers to sugaring "O'er/ The devil himself in their hypocritical iconography. Claudius is even more uncomfortable than Polonius with this cynical use of religious iconography, since his ugly guilt is juxtaposed so painfully against Ophelia's apparent innocence, not to mention the Virgin's:
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