Hamlet (place)

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

The Politic Worm: Invertebrate Life in the Early Modern English Body

Abstract: Almost everyone seems to know at least one thing about Hamlet’s Denmark: it is rotten. This famous sentiment is rivaled only by “to be or not to be” as source of popular allusions and parody. For the most part, this phrase—and language like it in the play—have been taken as purely metaphorical. Powerful people have been behaving badly, and “rot” seems to reflect a suitably disgusted attitude toward their malfeasance. Here, for example, is a conversation in which Hamlet, feigning madness, traverses rapidly through a constellation of possibilities.

The Breach and the Observance : Theatre retranslation as a strategy of artistic differentiation, with special reference to retranslations of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1777-2001)

Abstract: The subject of "The Breach and the Observance" is retranslation for the theatre. Besides offering a model that incorporates the findings of previous scholarship, it casts new light on the motivation behind retranslation, using the case of translations of Shakespeare's Hamlet on the Dutch stage. The history of Dutch Hamlet performances shows a number of constants in the retranslation of the play. Since the establishment of a Hamlet tradition and the rise of the director's theatre, the retranslations that functioned within the community of Dutch theatre were the fruit of the collaboration of translators with directors. Each translator changed its strategy towards at least one cardinal norm to be different from his theatrical predecessor. This new strategy formed an intrinsic part of the strategy of the director, who used the new text to support a new interpretation of the play that also differed from his predecessor's. Staging a retranslation can therefore be said to be a strategy to differentiate a theatre production from previous theatre productions through the application of differing translational norms.

Young Shakespeare's Young Hamlet : print, piracy, and performance

Abstract: 1. "What do you read, my lord?": Piratical Publishers? 2. 'Remember me': Piratical Actors? 3. "My tables: meet it is I set it down": Piratical Reporters? 4. "Young Hamlet": How Old is Young? 5. "The chronicles and brief abstracts of the time": Young Shakespeare? 6. "My father's death": Revising Hamlet?

Hesitancy as an innate flaw in Hamlets character: Reading through a psychoanalytic lens

Abstract: This paper concentrated on hesitancy as a character's flaw from the Freudian psychoanalysis focal point. Hamlet's uncertainty is especially identified with his natural complex which frames his oblivious love for his mom and his lethal abhor for his dad. Freud's ideas of man's concealed want for annihilation and eradication may shape the reason for understanding Hamlet's craving for death and suicide as demonstrated by his popular monologs. Ridiculousness and agnosticism in Hamlet's activities mirror the intrinsic human conduct and flaw. The paper suggests that Hamlet's play ought to be remembered for cutting edge writing courses for its lavishness in examples of general human conduct, for example, the recurrence that is natural to human activities on different events. Educators should expand under study's attention to the nearness of hesitancy and uncertainty as a flaw that can prompt pulverization as Hamlet does. Key words: Character, critics, flaw, Freudian psychoanalysis, Hamlet play, hesitancy, tragedy.

Old king, new king, eclipsed sons, and abandoned altars in Hamlet

Abstract: In Hamlet, Shakespeare's wordplay creates patterns of doubling, splitting, loss, and replacement that mimic the situations of not only the dramatic characters, but also the changing English church of the Reformation period. Puns provide verbal cues to remind the audience of the curtailing of old Roman rites, especially communion, burial practices, sanctuary, and prayer. They also draw attention to replacements of material furnishings of the church by the numerous allusions to tables, the arras, and the royal bed, all of which serve as reminders of the replacement of altars by reformers. Old religious practices have been secularized and adapted for the stage, but the wordplay attests to an ambivalence about the shifts in rites and to anxiety about iconoclastic change.