What Happens in HamletCambridge University Press, 1959 - 357 páginas John Dover Wilson's What Happens in Hamlet is a classic of Shakespeare criticism. First published in 1935, it is still being read throughout the English-speaking world and has been widely translated. Hamlet has excited more curiosity and aroused more debate than any other play ever written. Is Hamlet really mad? Does he really see his father's ghost, or is it an illusion? Is the ghost good or bad? What does it all mean? Dover Wilson brings out the significance of each part of the complex action, against the background. His analysis of the play emphasises Shakespeare's dramatic art and shows how the play must be seen and heard to be understood. This is a readable, entertaining and scholarly book. |
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... audience . What is to be said in reply to this crushing pronounce- ment ? Nothing by me . For , though I was present at that Cambridge performance , and could a tale unfold , my evidence is justly nonsuited . And so I leave the case in ...
... audience . What is to be said in reply to this crushing pronounce- ment ? Nothing by me . For , though I was present at that Cambridge performance , and could a tale unfold , my evidence is justly nonsuited . And so I leave the case in ...
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... audience that has not been primed before the curtain goes up . Now for the two matters that have roused the most public interest . First , Hamlet's entrance in 2. 2. At Stratford Hamlet was able to enter up stage at " Within the centre ...
... audience that has not been primed before the curtain goes up . Now for the two matters that have roused the most public interest . First , Hamlet's entrance in 2. 2. At Stratford Hamlet was able to enter up stage at " Within the centre ...
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... audiences of average intelligence cannot take in ; and it leaves no word nor act in the play without its definite meaning and use in the story . September , 1937 Yours ever , HAROLD CHILD PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION On the appearance ...
... audiences of average intelligence cannot take in ; and it leaves no word nor act in the play without its definite meaning and use in the story . September , 1937 Yours ever , HAROLD CHILD PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION On the appearance ...
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Índice
THE ROAD TO ELSINORE BEING AN EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO DR W W GREG | 1 |
THE TRAGIC BURDEN | 25 |
The state of Denmark | 26 |
Gertrudes sin | 39 |
The task | 44 |
GHOST OR DEVIL? | 51 |
Modern difficulties | 52 |
Shakespeares realism | 55 |
HAMLETS MAKEUP | 199 |
The turningpoint | 200 |
Sore distraction | 205 |
The heart of the mystery | 217 |
Dramatic emphasis | 229 |
FAILURE AND TRIUMPH | 239 |
Fortunes pipe | 240 |
The bedroom scene | 246 |
Problems of Elizabethan spiritualism | 60 |
The four witnesses | 66 |
Other superstitions | 75 |
The cellarage scene | 78 |
ANTIC DISPOSITION | 87 |
Its origin purpose and character | 88 |
Hamlet and Ophelia | 101 |
Thwarted ambition | 114 |
The nunnery scene | 125 |
THE MULTIPLE MOUSETRAP | 137 |
The parallel subplots | 138 |
The problem of the dumbshow | 144 |
Miching mallecho | 153 |
Nephew to the King | 164 |
The play scene restored | 174 |
Eclipse | 258 |
Hamlet returns | 265 |
The hero at bay | 276 |
APPENDICES | 291 |
A The Adultery of Gertrude | 292 |
B The Funeral of Ophelia | 295 |
C The Identity of the Gonzago troupe | 301 |
D Mr T S Eliots Theory of Hamlet | 305 |
Shakespeares Knowledge of A Treatise of Melancholie by Timothy Bright | 309 |
Hamlet as Cesare Borgia | 321 |
NOTES to The Second Edition | 335 |
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The End of Kinship: "measure for Measure", Incest, and the Idea of Universal ... Marc Shell Pré-visualização indisponível - 1988 |