Hamlet: language and writing
"This lively and informative guide reveals Hamlet as marking a turning point in Shakespeare's use of language and dramatic form as well as addressing the key problem at the play's core: Hamlet's inaction. It also looks at recent critical approaches to the play and its theatre his...
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2015
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| Summary: | "This lively and informative guide reveals Hamlet as marking a turning point in Shakespeare's use of language and dramatic form as well as addressing the key problem at the play's core: Hamlet's inaction. It also looks at recent critical approaches to the play and its theatre history, including the recent David Tennant / RSC Hamlet on both stage and TV screen"-- |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Physical Description: | XVII, 211 S. |
| ISBN: | 9781408154892 9781472520289 |
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| adam_text | Acknowledgements ix
Series editor s preface x
Preface xiii
How to use this book xiv
Introduction l
Language 3
Hamlet in Shakespeare’s career 6
Historical context 13
Hamlet in criticism 14
Writing matters 18
1 Language in print 21
What do you read, my lord?’ 21
Shakespeare’s bad language 28
To be or not to be’ 31
Ofelia 36
Is Q1 bad? 37
Genre 39
Poem unlimited’? 40
Tragedy 43
Revenge tragedy 43
Right revenge 45
Tragic precedent 47
Reflections on revenge 51
Now to my word’ 54
Revenge and memory 58
Review 61
Writing matters 62
Language: forms and uses 67
1* The theme of language: Words, words, words’ 67
Language as an idea 68
Language barriers 70
Words and meanings 72
Word and deed 74
Problem words: fat Hamlet 80
Who is speaking, and to whom? Soliloquy and
aside 82
Aside 84
Talking to himself 87
First soliloquy 88
Thinking out loud 96
2o The craft of language 97
Blank verse 97
Shakespeare and Marlowe 98
Shakespeare’s rhetorical techniques: Passage
analysis 106
Rhyme and lyricism 109
Prose madness 111
Thomas Nashe 118
Rhetoric 121
Rhetorical terms 123
Hamlet without words: The rest is silence’ 129
Review 135
Writing matters 135
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VII
3 Language through time l
1. Character: ‘Naked5 140
Philosophical Hamlet: ‘What?5 145
Montaigne’s scepticism 146
Describing Hamlet 149
2. Power and gender 151
Power: ‘This warlike state5 151
High politics 152
Hamlet the assassin 155
Hierarchy: ‘Here’s fine revolution5 157
Whores and harlots 162
Widows 165
Hamlet and Oedipus 1/2
The double standard 1/4
‘[L]ike a whore5 177
Violence against: women: ‘words like daggers5 179
Ophelia: ‘Her speech is nothing5 181
Nothing 185
‘The woman will be out5 185
Male bonding 187
Review 188
Writing matters 189
4 Writing an essay: Mark the play5 191
From Shakespeare’s writing to your own 193
Selecting a topic 194
The argument 195
Your thesis statement 197
Research 198
Why are you doing this? 199
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Bibliography and further reading 201
Editions of the play 209
Films 210
Theatrical performances 210
Websites 211
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