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Understanding Hamlet Richard Corum

Understanding Hamlet par Richard Corum

Understanding Hamlet Richard Corum


Résumé

Shakespeare's Hamlet, regarded by many as the world's most famous play by the world's most famous writer, is one of the most complex, demanding, discussed, and influential literary texts in English.

Understanding Hamlet Résumé

Understanding Hamlet: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents Richard Corum

Shakespeare's Hamlet, regarded by many as the world's most famous play by the world's most famous writer, is one of the most complex, demanding, discussed, and influential literary texts in English. As a means of access to this play, this unique collection of primary materials and commentary will help student and teacher explore historical, literary, theatrical, social, and cultural issues related to the play. In an approach unique for this series, Corum guides the reader through a literary analysis of Hamlet's options. He examines the popular theatres of the day in which Shakespeare and his company first produced Hamlet and discusses the genre of tragedy in which it is written. Through judicious selection of primary historical documents, the work provides contexts for understanding Hamlet's melancholy, the ghost of Hamlet's father, the theme of revenge, and Hamlet's feigned madness. Chapters on Gertrude and Ophelia illuminate these characters in the context of the play and early modern English culture.

Each chapter contains a variety of materials, many of which are not readily available elsewhere: essays, poems, histories, treatises, official documents, stories, religious tracts, homilies, memoirs, engravings, village records, and fifteen illustrations. An explanatory introduction precedes each document. Each chapter concludes with study questions, topics for written and oral exploration, and a list of suggested readings. This casebook will enrich the reader's understanding of the play and the context in which it was written.

À propos de Richard Corum

RICHARD CORUM teaches English at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His field of expertise is English Renaissance literature, especially Shakespeare, on which he published essays on Henry V and Love's Labour's Lost. He has also published an essay on Milton's Paradise Lost.

Sommaire

Introduction Method and Social Geography Theatre and Tragedy Literary Analysis: Hamlet's Options Man, Melancholy, and Suicide Enter Ghost...Exit Ghost Revenge (,) the Crime Antic Dispositions: The Hero as Fool Gertrude, Thy Name Is Woman Over Ophelia's Dead Body Conclusion Index

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CIN0313298777G
9780313298776
0313298777
Understanding Hamlet: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents Richard Corum
Occasion - Bon état
Relié
ABC-CLIO
19981028
296
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