The Elizabethan Hamlet

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Barrons Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9780764120848
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and published by Barrons Educational Services. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tale of the immortal Prince of Denmark delves deeply into the complexities of the human soul as it recounts Hamlet's tragic struggle to avenge his father's death. Books in this new, illustrated series present complete texts of Shakespeare's plays. However, the lines are set up so students can see the bard's original poetic phrases printed side-by-side and line-by-line with a modern "translation" on the facing page. Starting in the late 1580s and for several decades that followed, Shakespeare's plays were popular entertainment for London's theatergoers. His Globe Theatre was the equivalent of a Broadway theater in today's New York. The plays have endured, but over the course of 400+ years, the English language has changed in many ways—which is why today's students often find Shakespeare's idiom difficult to comprehend. Simply Shakespeare offers an excellent solution to their problem. Introducing each play is a general essay covering Shakespeare's life and times. At the beginning of each of the five acts in every play, a two-page spread describes what is about to take place. The story's background is explained, followed by brief descriptions of key people who will appear in the act, details students should watch for as the story unfolds, discussion of the play's historical context, how the play was staged in Shakespeare's day, and explanation of puns and plays on words that occur in characters' dialogues. Identifying icons preceding each of these study points are printed in a second color, then are located again as cross-references in the play's original text. For instance, where words spoken by a person in the play offer insights into his or another character's personality, the "Characters" icon will appear as a cross-reference in both the introductory spread and the play proper. Following each act, a closing spread presents questions and discussion points for use as teachers' aids. Guided by the inspiring format of this fine new series, both teachers and students will come to understand and appreciate the genius of Shakespeare as never before.

Author : John Dover Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521091091
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Happens in Hamlet written by John Dover Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic 1935 book, John Dover Wilson critiques Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Author : Arthur McGee
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300039887
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elizabethan Hamlet written by Arthur McGee and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-09-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original and provocative reinterpretation of Hamlet presents the play as the original audiences would have viewed it--a much bleaker, stronger, and more deeply religious play than it has usually been assumed to be. Arthur McGee draws a picture of a Devil-controlled Hamlet in the damnable Catholic court of Elsinore, and he shows that the evil natures of the Ghost and of Hamlet himself were understood and accepted by the Protestant audiences of the day. Using material gleaned from an investigation of play-censorship, McGee offers a comprehensive discussion of the Ghost as Demon. He then moves to Hamlet, presenting him as satanic, damned as revenger in the tradition of the Jacobean revenge drama. There are, he shows, no good ghosts, and Purgatory, whence the Ghost came, was reviled in Protestant England. The Ghost's manipulation extends to Hamlet's fool/madman role, and Hamlet's soliloquy reveals the ambition, conscience, and suicidal despair that damn him. With this viewpoint, McGee is able to shed convincing new light on various aspects of the play. He effectively strips Ophelia and Laertes of their sentimentalized charm, making them instead chillingly convincing, and he works through the last act to show damnation everywhere. In an epilogue, he sums up the history of criticism of Hamlet, demonstrating the process by which the play gradually lost its Elizabethan bite. Appendixes develop aspects of Ophelia.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0553535382
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Srsly Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William Shakespeare's tragedy told in the style of texts, tweets, and status posts"--

Author : Eleanor Prosser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hamlet and Revenge written by Eleanor Prosser and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300198825
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dream in Shakespeare written by Marjorie Garber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Corbin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.ML/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elizabethan Hamlet written by John Corbin and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691160244
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hamlet in Purgatory written by Stephen Greenblatt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting out to explain his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, Stephen Greenblatt provides an account of the rise and fall of purgatory as both a belief and a lucrative institution - as well as a new reading of the power of Hamlet.

Author : William E. Engel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030884902
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakespearean Death Arts written by William E. Engel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to view Shakespeare’s plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural expressions of memento mori, funeral rituals, commemorative activities, and rhetorical techniques and strategies fundamental to the performance of the work of dying, death, and the dead. The volume is divided into two sections: first, critically nuanced examinations of Shakespeare’s corpus and then, second, of Hamlet exclusively as the ultimate proving ground of the death arts in practice. This book revitalizes discussion around key and enduring themes of mortality by reframing Shakespeare’s plays within a newly conceptualized historical category that posits a cultural divide—at once epistemological and phenomenological—between premodernity and the Enlightenment.

Author : Erin Dionne
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101155752
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet written by Erin Dionne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Hamlet Kennedy wants is to be a normal eighth grader. But with parents like hers - Shakespearean scholars who actually dress in Elizabethan regalia . . . in public! - it's not that easy. As if they weren't strange enough, her genius seven-year-old sister will be attending her middle school, and is named the new math tutor. Then, when the Shakespeare Project is announced, Hamlet reveals herself to be an amazing actress. Even though she wants to be average, Hamlet can no longer hide from the fact that she- like her family - is anything but ordinary.