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Hamlet (place)

About: Hamlet (place) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2771 publications have been published within this topic receiving 16301 citations.


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TL;DR: This paper read Hamlet's speech to his mother from Act 1II, Scene iv, in dialogue with a friend who'll play Gertrude's part, asking questions about the meaning and delivery of certain lines: "Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed and batten on this moor? Ha! Have?"
Abstract: is part of the challenge of censorship. pringtime comes to the campus, and my sophomore class is reading Hamlet in the best possible way: outside, in groups, preparing to perform "scenes and soliloquies in class on an imminent rainy day Someone-call him Jose-chooses to read Hamlet's speech to his mother from Act 1II, Scene iv, in dialogue with a friend who'll play Gertrude's part. They're asking questions about the meaning and delivery of certain lines: when Hamlet asks, "Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed and batten on this moor? Ha! Have

6 citations

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TL;DR: Hamlet's particular claim to modernity began when an analogy was discovered between Hamlet and Orestes; both ancient and modern sons had a father killed and a mother stained as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: It depends on what you mean by modern. Timeworn on arrival around 1600, it was after the Restoration and well into the eighteenth century deemed antiquated, old, barbarous and gothic. When termed modern, it was because (like any work in the vernacular) it was not written in ancient Greek or Latin. In this sense, Shakespeare in knowing "small Latin and less Greek' was about as modern as a literate man could be. But Hamlet's particular claim to modernity began when an analogy was discovered between Hamlet and Orestes; both ancient and modern sons had a father killed and a mother stained. Yet as the representative modern drama, Hamlet still had no modern qualities: it was better or worse than its ancient counterpart (stronger on character, weaker on plot), but no different. It had first to be seen as romantic – that is, in the unclassical tradition of the medieval romance languages and poetic forms. Not until it broke those ties with a bygone past could it properly be called modern. This is what Hamlet or ra...

6 citations

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25 Aug 1972
TL;DR: In this paper, what do we bring to Shakespeare? The authors present an approach to bring Shakespeare to the 21st century: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra Index.
Abstract: Acknowledgements Note on texts 1. Introduction: what do we bring to Shakespeare? 2. Hamlet 3. Othello 4. King Lear 5. Antony and Cleopatra Index.

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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202137
202060
201986
201894
2017100
2016117