Top Research Papers on Hamlet

Abstract No Hamlets is the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany from the founding of the Empire in 1871 to the ‘Bonn Republic’ of the Cold War era. In this sustained study, Andreas Höfele begins with Friedrich Nietzsche and follows the rightist engagement with Shakespeare to the poet Stefan George and his circle, including Ernst Kantorowicz, and the literary efforts of the young Joseph Goebbels during the Weimar Republic, continuing with the Shakespeare debate in the Third Reich and its aftermath in the controversy ov...

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Avi Erlich finds that deals not with repressed patricidal impulses but with a complex search, partially unconscious, for a strong father. Much more than he wants to have killed his father, Hamlet wants his father back and seeks a strong man with whom to identify. The playwright presents one ambivalent father figure after another, each an imitation or parody of the seemingly titanic king. Polonius, Osrick, Yorick, Old Fortinbras, Priam, Achilles, Horatio--these are a few versions ofthe father who bequeathed to his son his own ambivalence.Originally published in 1978.The Princeton Legacy Library...

'Hamlet' and World Cinema reveals a rich history of cinematic production extending across the globe. Making a case for Hamlet as the world's most frequently filmed text, and using specially commissioned interviews with cast, directors and screenwriters, it discusses films from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. The book argues that the play has been taken up by filmmakers world-wide to allegorise the energies, instabilities, traumas and expectations that have defined the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In so doing, it rejects the Anglophone focus which has dominated...

This book is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in the English language. By exploring Shakespeare's engagements with the humanist traditions of early modern England and Europe, the book reveals a Hamlet unseen for centuries: an innovative, coherent, and exhilaratingly bleak tragedy in which the governing ideologies of Shakespeare's age are scrupulously upended. The book establishes that life in Elsinore is measured not by virtue but by the deceptions and grim brutality of the hunt. It also shows that Shakespeare most vividly represents this reality in the character of Hamlet:...

The third edition of Hamlet offers a completely new introduction to this rich, mysterious play, examining Shakespeare's transformation of an ancient Nordic legend into a drama whose philosophical, psychological, political, and spiritual complexities have captivated audiences world-wide for over 400 years. Focusing on the ways in which Shakespeare re-imagined the revenge plot and its capacity to investigate the human experiences of love, grief, obligation, and memory, Heather Hirschfeld explores the play's cultural and theatrical contexts, its intricate textual issues, its vibrant critical trad...

An acclaimed new interpretation of Shakespeare's HamletHamlet and the Vision of Darkness is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in the English language. By exploring Shakespeare's engagements with the humanist traditions of early modern England and Europe, Rhodri Lewis reveals a Hamlet unseen for centuries: an innovative, coherent, and exhilaratingly bleak tragedy in which the governing ideologies of Shakespeare's age are scrupulously upended. Recovering a work of far greater magnitude than the tragedy of a young man who cannot make up his mind, Lewis shows that in Hamlet, as ...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet (c.1600-1601) has achieved iconic status as one of the most exciting and enigmatic of plays. It has been in almost constant production in Britain and throughout the world since it was first performed, fascinating generations of audiences and critics alike.Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Shakespeare's remarkable play offers:extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history and performance of the text, from publication to the presentannotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itselfcross-referen...

King Hamlet of Denmark has recently died in his orchard. Palace sources claim the King’s death was a tragic accident occasioned by a snakebite. He is survived by Her Majesty Queen Gertrude and His ...

Amanda Kane Rooks explores the representation of Ophelia in Michael Almereyda's film adaptation of Hamlet. Rooks argues that Almereyda's film does not conform to the tendency in film adaptations to reduce Ophelia to the status of tragic prop and that it instead imbues this character with an ideological potency to rival Hamlet himself.

Lev S. Vygotsky is one of the major figures of psychology; however, his deep engagement with the arts is less known. This is surprising, given the fact that the arts, and especially Shakespeare’s Hamlet, are present throughout his career. In this article, we argue, first, that Hamlet was a major symbolic resource for Vygotsky in times of liminal transitions, and second, that it is this very deep experience of having been transformed by means of Hamlet that grounds his psychology of art, which aims precisely to show how Hamlet works as a “technique of emotions.” Our demonstration is organized i...

The authors propose a nonstandard approach to the formation of professional competence in future biologists: learning the biological characteristics of the rose "Ophelia" by studying Shakespeare's tragedy "Hamlet" in the context of Ophelia’s image.

Hamlet's "Moderate Haste" and the Time of Speech Thomas Ward People with a normal sense of time can count "one, two, three, four, five" systematically. I, on the other hand, would count out five as "one, two, threefourfive."1 —Marty Jezer When asked by Prince Hamlet how long the ghost of his father "[s]tayed" before disappearing into the Danish night, Horatio estimates that it was "[w]hile one with moderate haste might tell a hundred": the length of time, that is, that it would take to count to one hundred at a normal rate.2 Horatio's time estimate is followed by a brief hiatus in his story as...

In this first full-length biography of Alexander Bogdanov, James D. White traces the intellectual development of this key socialist thinker, situating his ideas in the context of the Russian revolutionary movement. He examines the part Bogdanov played in the origins of Bolshevism, his role in the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and his conflict with Lenin, which lasted into Soviet times.
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This article looks at a 2011 incident which led to a soldier (Marine A) being convicted of murdering an Afghan insurgent. It focuses on the words (quoting from Hamlet) spoken by the Marine as he carried out the killing: “shuffle off this mortal coil, you cunt” and examines the link that these words establish between the war in Afghanistan and Shakespeare’s play. The article explores the connections between Hamlet and Marine A and how their actions can be understood to both parallel each other and diverge around ethical contemplation; access to military masculinity; the banishing of the feminin...

Joseph Campbell’s proposal that the lives of human beings might be seen as variations on a single unifying grand narrative, provides the energy for this article. From a therapeutic perspective, Campbell’s monomythic metaphor of the hero-journey suggests that individuals may choose how they respond to challenging life events, and his pantheon intersects with humanistic principles of self-actualization and traditional concepts of psychospiritual transformation and growth. Thus, the painful passage through trauma may lead to greater awareness of the self and enhanced psychological functioning. In...

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It has always been assumed that either Shakespeare or the author of the Ur-Hamlet was the first to introduce controversial religious allusions to the pre-Christian setting of Saxo's Amleth saga. But this article seeks to relocate the legend in the competing confessional narratives to which it belonged in mid-sixteenth-century Europe. A new link between Saxo, Belleforest, and Shakespeare's versions of the story is identified in the ethnographic histories of Johannes and Olaus Magnus of Sweden. The overlooked Historia Olai Magni (1567) is proposed as the source of local details (like the sledded...

Introduction. The Ur-Hamlet Chapter 1. As Originally Written by Shakespeare: Textual Bibliography and Textual Biography Chapter 2. Contrary Matters: The Power of the Gloss and the History of an Obscenity Chapter 3. Enter the Ghost in His Night Gowne: Behind Gertrude's Bed Chapter 4. Conscience Makes Cowards: The Disintegration and Reintegration of Shakespeare Conclusion. Q1 in the Library at Babel Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

Through sustained close-readings of Montaigne's essays and Shakespeare's plays, Platt explores both authors' approaches to self, knowledge and form that stress fractures, interruptions and alternatives