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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... perhaps have been modified since he wrote by Mr A. H. J. Knight's discovery2 that , according to the seven- teenth - century stage - tradition preserved in Der bestrafte Brudermord , Osric was represented as an accomplice in the plot ...
... perhaps have been modified since he wrote by Mr A. H. J. Knight's discovery2 that , according to the seven- teenth - century stage - tradition preserved in Der bestrafte Brudermord , Osric was represented as an accomplice in the plot ...
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... for sacrilege , as Mr Michael Innes , author of Hamlet , Revenge , might perhaps surmise , but - obliged to leave England for the continent . crowned his endeavours . As will be seen from the Preface to the Second Edition xi.
... for sacrilege , as Mr Michael Innes , author of Hamlet , Revenge , might perhaps surmise , but - obliged to leave England for the continent . crowned his endeavours . As will be seen from the Preface to the Second Edition xi.
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... state of his Hamlet was perhaps somewhat plainer to read . The long duel between Hamlet and Claudius , again , is a matter , as it seemed to me , for the actors ; but the performances left me in A Letter by Mr Harold Child xvii.
... state of his Hamlet was perhaps somewhat plainer to read . The long duel between Hamlet and Claudius , again , is a matter , as it seemed to me , for the actors ; but the performances left me in A Letter by Mr Harold Child xvii.
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... Perhaps the newer grouping brings them more directly into the picture , and so does all that is really necessary by reminding the spectator that they , with their own notions and feelings , are part of that mani- fold and complex whole ...
... Perhaps the newer grouping brings them more directly into the picture , and so does all that is really necessary by reminding the spectator that they , with their own notions and feelings , are part of that mani- fold and complex whole ...
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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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¹ Vide actor Admiral's men antic disposition apparition appears audience beginning cellarage scene Cesare Borgia Claudius Claudius's critics death Denmark dialogue distemper doubt Dowden Dr Bradley Dr Johnson dramatic dramatist dumb-show Elizabethan Elsinore excitement explain eyes fact father follows Gertrude Ghost give Gonzago Gonzago-play Granville-Barker groundlings Hamlet's character Hamlet's mind hand hero hint Horatio imagination incestuous intended interpretation King Hamlet King's Laertes Lavater lines lord Lucianus madness Marcellus means melancholy modern mother murder nature never notes nunnery scene once Ophelia Osric passage play scene players plot poison Polonius Prince problem prologue Queen question quoted reader reference revenge Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Second Quarto seems seen Shakespeare Shakespearean Tragedy Shakespearian soliloquy soul speak spectators speech spirit stage suggests tells theatre theory thing thou thought tion tragedy Treatise uncle uttered W. W. Greg whole words
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The End of Kinship: "measure for Measure", Incest, and the Idea of Universal ... Marc Shell Pré-visualização indisponível - 1988 |