Top Research Papers on Hamlet

Hamlet is Shakespeares most famous play. Scholars have engaged in extensive debates regarding the themes of revenge and procrastination in Hamlet. However, existing research falls short in fully exploring Hamlets thoughts on kingship and his relationship with power. Despite the extensive examination of Hamlets complex character, a more in-depth analysis from this perspective is warranted. This paper, therefore, aims to further explore the connection between Hamlet and political power from three key angles. Firstly, it examines Hamlets reflections on kingship as presented through the drama and ...

Preface: Hamlet without Hamlet 1. Modern Hamlet 2. 'Old Mole': the modern Telos and the return to dust 3. Empires of world history 4. Generation and degeneracy 5. Doomsday and domain 6. Hamlet's delay Select bibliography.

"Hamlet" without Hamlet, by Margreta de Grazia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 267. Cloth $101.00; paper $41.99. Margreta de Grazia's "Hamlet" without Hamlet rejects two hundred years of psychological readings of the play's hero to ground her interpretation of Hamlet in ground itself, in "the close relationship between human and humus, man and manor," and even Hamlet and hamlet (6). This attention to the land resurrects both the political nature of the play as a dynastic struggle and resurrects the plot, too often ignored since Coleridge in favor of character. Overall, ...

This introductory chapter argues that William Shakespeare's Hamlet can be read as a profound meditation on the nature of human individuality without relying on conceptual frameworks drawn from the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Just as historical discourses beyond those of Hamlet itself provide a fuller and more nuanced understanding of the political and dynastic forces shaping life in Shakespeare's Denmark, so what might be called Hamlet's “character” appears in unfamiliar and revealing relief when read against the textual contours of the psychological, rhetori...

Serve esta reflexao  para ensar e abordar o tema do fantasma em Hamlet - peca de Shakespeare, quanto a nos, desprovida de um centro claro, cheia de momentos de hesitacao e reflexao profunda. Estes aspectos serao aqui explorados, apresentando-se a proposta do espectro vir a ocupar esse centr ovazio.  O espectro, seguindo esta linha de pensamento, podera operar como um centro panoptico que vigia todas as personagens e, de uma forma ou de outra, acaba por estabelecer entre elas accoes de poder. Pensa-se ainda sobre o que chamamos efeitos do fantasma. Questoes como a noite - horario nobre das apar...

Hamlet is a hero of the Renaissance. His melancholy and morals as well as his limitations and tragedy all are typical to the humanist qualities.

IKE every play, Hamlet is a complex rhetorical structure, a series of verbal and visual cues which guide its audiences' responses. The function of these cues is to create a coherent dramatic experience in the minds of its audiences, for that is j finally where all plays are enacted. At the same time, however, the speeches, gestures, and settings, all those things which serve as rhetorical cues, come together as dramatic phenomena in creating an apparently self-contained world on stage. Thus, about a single speech we may say either, "Here Hamlet reveals such and such about himself," or, "Here w...

Sosnowska, Monika. Hamlet uzmystowiony (Sensuous Hamlet). Lodz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lodzkiego, 2013. Pp. 201.Today, the range of academic approaches applied to the study of senses has reached beyond areas limited to psychological inquiry. Sensuality has become an object of study for scholars representing various academic disciplines, proving them to be both challenging and significant terrains for numerous, often interdisciplinary academic analyses. Senses have, therefore, begun to be seen as cultural formations which are subject to considerable changes in time and a topic which requires ...

about narrative sequence are implicated in representations of eroticism” (279). Her test case, as with Smith, is Shakespeare in Love. Analyses of Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece in this volume also center on sexuality. As Richard Rambuss notes, Shakespeare dedicated his first lengthy poem, an erotic epyllion, to a young aristocrat (Southampton) known for his good looks and his refined taste in literature. Rambuss argues against reading the poem in terms of role reversals and androgyny; he chooses instead to emphasize the poem’s “overtones of male friendship, male initiation or coming ...

Penelitian ini membahas tentang depresi yang ada pada novel hamlet karya Shakespeare. Penelitian ini focus kepada Hamlet sebagai karakter utama di dalam novel. tujuan dari penulisan ini untuk mengungkapkan alas an kenapa Hamlet mengalami depresi dan menganalisa efek dari sifat depresi. Penelitian ini menggunakan penilitian kepustakaan untuk mengoleksi data dan menjawab masalah. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa karakter utama di dalam drama ini adalah Hamlet, pangeran dari Denmark, memiliki sebuah objektivitas untuk menganalisa deprei yang dialami oleh Hamlet sebagai pelaku protagoni...

The Renaissance context Ever since nineteenth-century historians such as Jules Michelet and Jacob Burckhardt began elaborating a systematic concept of the Renaissance, the idea has proved controversial. Some have questioned whether it is accurate to speak of the Renaissance as a distinct period; others have confined themselves to questioning the dating of the age, or proposing a variety of Renaissances. Certainly when one surveys what has come to be known as the Renaissance, it looks different in different countries, and seems to proceed at different rates in different areas (the Renaissance i...

to comedies and tragedies also, as Bevington illustrates in his spatial analysis of Romeo and Juliet, with its changes from ballroom to garden, from appearances at a window to descents to the main stage, and from bedroom to tomb. He gives examples from several plays of the multiple uses of the stage’s upper gallery (which was not the balcony conventionally imagined in Romeo and Juliet), as well as the discovery space from which the action was brought forward to the main part of the stage. With later productions that strove for verisimilitude the flexibility was lost, though audiences were able...

This article discusses a 2018 theatrical production of Hamlet with Romanian teenage arts students, directed by one of the article’s authors, actress and academic Dana Trifan Enache. As an artist, she believes that the art of theatre spectacle depends pre-eminently on the actors’ enactment, and hones her students’ acting skills and technique accordingly. The other voice in the article comes from an academic in a cognate discipline within the broad field of arts and humanities. As a feminist and medievalist, the latter has investigated the political underside of representations of the body in re...

How does a father manage the death of his son or his father? What might a playwright do? This article proposes that confronted with the multiple loss of his son Hamnet and subsequently his father John, William Shakespeare experienced a transformational consciousness event or 'spiritual problem' (DSM IV), defined by Grof and Grof as a 'spiritual emergency' (SE), which he explores through the making of his masterpiece Hamlet. The play's central male character is a fine example of an instrumental masculine response to coping with loss. It is argued that the depiction of Hamlet's struggle towards ...

This research tries to show how Shakespeare's Hamlet is adapted for the movies. Hamlet directed by Franco Zeffirelli focuses on the eternal...

In his creation of characters, Shakespear has surpassed the limits of the form of playwright and ingeniously used the dramatic device of soliloquy to reveal the thoughts and feelings hidden deeply in the hearts of the characters, thus making them figures with a vast and complex inner world. Soliloquies of Hamlet express his complicated psychological state of being idealistic yet pessimistic for the cruel reality, bold in action but hesitating in decision, diligent in thinking but restricted only to his inner world. In this way, these soliloquies help bring to light the multio-level characters ...

Dr. Eissler's double expertise as psychoanalyst and Shakespearian scholar becomes quickly apparent. Shakespeare's plays, he says, offer a "mind-created world... but a complete one, parallel to the one we know... the vicissitudes of human life appear to be compressed into... solid and meaningful forms..." The "New Criticism," he points out, finds the psychoanalytic approach a deliberate attempt to equate Shakespearian characters with living human beings, in an effort to unearth unconscious motivations. In the body of Shakespeare's work, there are depths that scientific psychology has not yet co...

Shakespeare and Hamlet both use existing sources for the plots of “Hamlet” and “The Murder of Gonzago” respectively. 1 Shakespeare, who is said to have played the role of the ghost of Hamlet’s father at the Globe Theatre, could be regarded not only as the writer but also as the first director of “Hamlet”. 2 Like him, Hamlet is also staging a play in “Hamlet”, and even makes some modifications to it. As Marvin Hunt puts it, “In contributing ‘some dozen lines, or sixteen lines’ to “The Murder of Gonzago”, Hamlet becomes, as it were, a coauthor of “Hamlet” [Hunt, 2007: 213]. 3 However, the idea o...

This book differs little from previous conceptions of Hamlet the man and of his dynamics and problems and carries the long-existing and deep veins of misogyny revealed in the interpretations of the characters of Queen Gertrude and Ophelia.

Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is considered the jewel in the crown of a triumphant theatrical career. Now Kenneth Branagh plays the leading role and co-directs a brillant ensemble performance. Three generations of legendary leading actors, many of whom first assembled for the Oscar-winning film "Henry" V, gather here to perform the rarely heard complete version of the play. This clear, subtly nuanced, stunning dramatization, presented by The Renaissance Theatre Company in association with "Bbc" Br...

In this account of Hamlet I am concerned to shift attention from Hamlet himself to the larger conflicts and issues that now seem important to me in shaping the action. It is almost impossible to comment on a drama without treating the characters as if they were human beings acting in full autonomy, and it would be rather absurd to preface every remark by noting that the characters only exist as we produce them from Shakespeare's words on the page. Furthermore, as critics have shown over and over again, the characters and the play take on a life of their own in relation to the world of the crit...

Basing her conclusions of research into apocalyptic and Mariological imagery in Hamlet, Hoff offers a comphrensive solution to Hamelet's personal problems. The study includes an examination of the textual history and various biblical translations and word comparisons. The guide aims to convince through historical analysis that standard readings of "Hamlet" have missed a theological superstructure running throughout the play.

to the audience’s enjoyment. Nonetheless, the feeling of a rushed end remained to some extent. The play closed with Julia and Proteus (Mark Arends), standing diagonally across the stage, contemplating a tentative reconciliation that abided by the 2020 norms of social distancing. But, before that, had Sylvia really intended to kill Proteus, only to be prevented by Valentine (Michael Marcus) even as he offered to ‘give her’ to his friend? Was she in such a state of anger and shock that she didn’t really take in what he was saying, which is why she went off with him placidly? Who is Sylvia? Certa...

Automatic term extraction (ATE) is an important task within natural language processing, both separately, and as a preprocessing step for other tasks. In recent years, research has moved far beyond the traditional hybrid approach where candidate terms are extracted based on part-of-speech patterns and filtered and sorted with statistical termhood and unithood measures. While there has been an explosion of different types of features and algorithms, including machine learning methodologies, some of the fundamental problems remain unsolved, such as the ambiguous nature of the concept “term”. Th...

In the large body of scholarship devoted to the study of Shakespeare’s classical sources, a relatively small but distinguished segment deals with the direct or indirect influence of Attic tragedy on Shakespeare’s dramatic art. In spite of or even in accordance with the firmly established and widely accepted tenet of Senecan influence, scholars never cease to surprise us with new theories and findings about possible parallels between the tragedies of Shakespeare and those of Aeschylus, Sophocles or Euripides. The scope of such research may range from a philologically oriented critical revaluati...

This is that Hamlet the Dane, whom we read of in our youth, and whom we seem almost to remember in our after-years; he who made that famous soliloquy on life, who gave the advice to the players, who thought ‘this goodly frame, the earth, a steril promontory, and this brave o’er-hanging firmament, the air, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours;’* whom ‘man delighted not, nor woman neither;’* he who talked with the grave-diggers, and moralised on Yorick’s skull; the school-fellow of Rosencraus and Guildenstern at Wittenberg; the friend of H...

Giovanni Testori (1923-1993) is an atypical figure in the Italian cultural panorama of the second half of the twentieth century, especially because of his multidimensional artistic output and an overt obsession with Hamlet . Tracing Testori’s life-long relationship with Shakespeare's Hamlet, and focusing on his intense dramatic and poetic production in the early 1970s, this article reflects on the evolution of Testori's Hamlet into an ultimate character endowed with mythological and anthropological dimensions. Deconstructing Testori's encounters with Hamlet's haunting presence involves more th...

Bu makalede Hamlet`te politika ve yonetim yeni tarihselci yaklasimla degerlendirilmistir. Bu yaklasim gecmiste olmus olaylarin gercekligini reddetmeden, gecmise elestirel bir bakis acisiyla yaklasarak dogru/yanlis degerlendirmelerinin her donemde yeni bir bakis acisi ve yeni bir anlayisla yapilabilecegini savunur. Hamlet yonetim ya da politika konusu uzerinde odaklanan bir eser olmamakla birlikte, yeni tarihselci acidan bakildiginda yonetim ve politika konusunda calisan bir tarihcinin islevi ile edebiyatcinin islevi aynidir. Tarihin degerlendirilmesinde edebi ve edebi olmayan ayrimi yoktur. Bu...

The aim of this essay is to contribute to the understanding of William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet (1603) by means of a critical reconsideration of biographical episodes such as the functional gap the playwright left in his family. To this end, two texts will be examined, Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet (2020) and Shakespeare’s Hamlet itself, reading the former as an imaginative critical-biographical interpretation of the latter. The focus will be on Shakespeare’s domestic life, particularly on the figure of his son Hamnet and the relationship he had with his father, as depicted in O’Farrell’s work...

In this dissertation I have endeavoured through words and figures to 'map' my performance of Hamlet from a feminist perspective. Assuming that both the audience and the reader are familiar with Shakespeare's text, I have centred my project around an adaptation and performance of Hamlet called 'I, Hamlet'. 'I, Hamlet' is a perspective of the play, scripted for three actors, that focuses on the performance of gender and identity. The resultant map, this dissertation, is constructed out of several different 'mappings' that intersect and inform one another. These mappings include: 1. A critical a...

There is a tradition of reading Hamlet against the tradition of reading Hamlet : just as actors in the role have attempted to shake off the overbearing weight of other Hamlets, so too have commentators attempted to unsettle received notions of the play. The most conspicuous recent example of this effort is Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor’s third edition of the Arden Hamlet (2006), which prints separately the 1603 Quarto, the 1604–5 Quarto, and the 1623 Folio editions, refuting the possibility of a clear and authoritative text (yet, enigmatically, giving pride of place to the Second Quarto by publ...

Traditional settlements that still survive until now one of them is in Sade Hamlet, Central Lombok Regency, NTB. This settlement is now a tourist destination because of the original architectural form of outer and inner spaces. These settlements have distinctive characteristics formed by local people from the time of their ancestors. Local wisdom is seen at the macro and micro scale which is a characteristic that has an opportunity value. This value arises due to trust (watu telu and watu lima) and culture (the use of cow dung when mopping) and moral values handed down by their ancestors. This...

This is a conference paper. The following thoughts arise from a book that I am writing on the twentieth-century history of editorial theories in respect of Shakespeare. The New Bibliography that emerged from the work of A. J. Pollard, W. W. Greg, and R. B. McKerrow in the first decades of the century assumed a relatively unproblematic application of Platonic idealism for the relationship between the play as conceived in the mind of the dramatist and the play as performed or written down. Such idealism has in recent critical work (especially from the schools of New Historicism and Cultural Mate...

Detached from Shakespeare’s English, Hamlet has been rewritten numerous times in European languages, the various translations into any one language jostling with each other for dominance and spawning new Hamlets that depart decisively from Shakespeare as a source. This book focuses on the rich tradition of drawing from Hamlet in European cultures to produce new, independent works, which include Hamlet theatre, Hamlet ballet, Hamlet poetry, Hamlet fiction, Hamlet essays and Hamlet films. It examines how the myth of Hamlet has crossed back and forth over Europe’s linguistic borders for four hund...

La compagnia Punta Corsara - nata dal fortunato laboratorio di non-scuola “Arrevuoto” che il regista Marco Martinelli ha tenuto con gli adolescenti di Napoli e dei turbolenti quartieri di Scampia - con il suo Hamlet Travestie non mette in scena solo la parodia del dramma di Shakespeare, ma compie un triplo salto mortale: si parte, nel titolo, dall’opera dell’inglese John Poole, ottocentesca parodia burlesque del testo shakespeariano, passando per il Don Fausto di Antonio Petito, a sua volta parodia del Faust di Goethe, per approdare, in un vertiginoso e sapiente gioco di incastri, alla tragedi...

This research delves into the intricate relationships depicted in William Shakespeare's “Hamlet”, with a focus on Hamlet's interactions with female characters. It aims to unravel the complexities of these relationships, shedding light on Shakespeare's portrayal of gender dynamics, power struggles, and emotional entanglements. Employing a qualitative approach, the study analyzes interactions between Hamlet and characters like Ophelia and Gertrude, drawing from primary texts and scholarly analyses. Primary data sources include the original text of “Hamlet” and reputable academic commentaries, co...

Abstract Shakespeare’s dramas are potentialities. Any Hamlet may be understood as the space in which Shakespeare’s thoughts are remembered, as a reproduced copy of the unspecified, unidentified source, the so called original. Simultaneously, it may be conceived of as the space where Shakespeare’s legacy and authority is tested, trifled and transgressed. Nowadays Shakespeare’s dramas are disseminated in multifarious forms such as: printed materials, audio and video recordings, compact audio discs, digital videos and disc recordings. Since I am fond of the cultural phenomenon called Hamlet, not ...

Le delai qu'H. apporte a la vengeance du meurtre de son pere fait partie integrante de l'intrigue. Le champ d'action d'H. est celui du monde de la piece: un monde qui se situe a la fois dans le temps et l'eternite, le reel et l'irreel, la raison et la folie, la vie et la mort, un monde ou les mots assument le sens des actes et ou les actes sont des mots| un monde ou les personnages n'ont plus confiance ni dans les uns, ni dans les autres| un monde ou l'on questionne sans fin.

This paper is a comparative study on the different views on revenge, love, and life and death held by Hamlet and Laertes. It concludes that Hamlet is respected not because of his heroic undertaking of revenge, but because of his unremitting pursuit of his personal identity and the meaning of life, which brings endless enlightenment to people.

This thesis entitled "Hamlet's Major Depression in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark"�, has an objective to analyze the depression experienced by the Hamlet as the protagonist. There are two methods applied in this thesis they are library research method and approach. Library research method is used to gain references dealing with the object of analysis. While approaches used here are structural approach and psychological approach. Structural approach was used to analyze the structural elements of the play, like character and conflict. Psychological approach was used to analyze the majo...

Hamlet is a kind of tragic story about a young prince, who has a lot of problems that makes his mind, is full of confusion, doubt and uncertainty. His inability to face reality and his weaknesses seem overwhelm him. Therefore, he experiences depression since he is also unable to cope with it. His psychological problem, depression, becomes the issue that the thesis writer wants to discuss. Therefore, the thesis writer questions why Hamlet gets depression and what the effects of his depression are as seen in his behavior. So, the thesis writer is going to reveal why Hamlet experiences depression...

Reviewers’ comments upon the physique of Simon Russell Beale in the role of Hamlet for the National Theatre in 2000 suggest that theatrical tradition requires a thin Prince; however, the play itself offers contradictory indications in this respect. In fact, two Hamlets can be discerned in Hamlet: one a melancholic who laments his idleness in failing to carry out a revenge that he imagines in terms of labour, the other a quick wit who feigns idle madness in order to accomplish his plans. As well as having a practical purpose, however, this feigned idleness links Hamlet to Elizabethan gentlemen ...

The Character of Hamlet, has been variously judged of by critics, and what might be expected, it has been still more variously represented by performers upon the stage. Shakespeare himself seems to have apprehended that this would happen; and that injustice would be done to a hero, who probably, in his estimation, ranked higher than any other that he has brought into the drama.

In the year 1860, Ivan Turgenev delivered a speech at a public reading entitled "Hamlet and Don Quixote". In it, he commented on the concept of man and world ( Weltanschauung) which emerged from the English play and the Spanish novel. However, the philosophical and moral interpretation, which he proposed, referred to Tsarist Russia and the problems of the reforms under Alexander II. For example, there existed a clear link between the speech and Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons ( „ Отцы и дети “ ) . Hamlet and Don Quixote remind us mainly of the European fates of these two myths, especially th...

Pastoral challenges prompted pietists among Elizabethan Catholics and Calvinists to commend what historians now call an inward turn whereby the faithful, in a sense, become their own confessors. This article suggests that spiritual exercises or soliloquies Shakespeare scripted for his Hamlet (and, less so, for Angelo in Measure for Measure) compare favorably with the devotional literature that underscored the importance of self-analysis, intra-psychic conflict, and contrition. The argument here is not that the playwright’s piety resembled his Hamlet’s but that the latter reflected efforts to s...

Beyond all the sound and fury (which continues even now beyond the grave, in the crasser forms of obituary-speak), there are, at a very general level of reflection, three emphases in Derrida's work that have mattered to me, and which I still carry with me. The first has to do with the rebarbative notion of differance, the notion that being is never present to us, which I take to be first and foremost a reflection on the irreducible temporality not only of being, but also of our categories for thinking about being. The second turns on the view that everything human is problematic for the rest o...

A classic study in the psychoanalysis of literature, Hamlet and Oedipus investigates Hamlet's mind as it relates to the general psychological conditions foreshadowed in the Oedipus legend. Dr. Jones gives a comprehensive view of the Hamlet literature and shows how the explanation of Hamlet's mysterious inhibitions lies in his unconscious conflicts. The Hamlet theme is itself an old one, and there is a full discussion of the place of the saga in the complex mythological group to which it belongs.

Hamlet has always been the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in Japan. This is a collection of critical essays by Japanese authors, looking at a variety of aspects of the play.

Acknowledgements Preface 1 Literary contexts 2 Laurence Olivier's Hamlet: from text to screen 3 Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet: from text to screen 4 Critical response and the afterlife of text and film Bibliography Index

Ghosts and courts - the openings of "Hamlets", Neil Forsyth Hamlet's ghost on the screen, Patrick Hunter reading and screening Ophelia - 1948-1996, Deborah Cartmell Fortinbras on film - safe passage for the Prince, Thomas L. Wilmeth "abstract and brief chronicles" on film - the players' scenes in "Hamlet", Leigh Woods "didst perceive?" - five versions of the mousetrap in "Hamlet", David G. Hale Hamlet and the jester's skull - the graveyard scene on film, James Rigney Hamlet and the kiss, John Ottenhoff "remember me" - the Gaument-Hepworth Hamlet - 1913, Emma Smith Hamlet as a woman - Asta Niel...