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Gideon Burton

Hamlet Text and Translation - Strategies for Understanding Shakespeare's Language - 2 views

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    Some great, specific strategies for decoding Shakespeare's language (applied to Hamlet)
Gideon Burton

Religion, language and performance in Hamlet - 0 views

  • Hamlet’s utilization of theatre as a medium through which to reveal truth, despite his distrust of the medium and its perpetrators, makes for an interesting connection between performance and religion
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    Those interested in connections between language, religion, and performance in Shakespeare would find this article of interest.
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    I particularly like this concept: "Hamlet's utilization of theatre as a medium through which to reveal truth, despite his distrust of the medium and its perpetrators, makes for an interesting connection between performance and religion"
Brooke Grant

Literature Resource Center -- Author Resource Pages - 0 views

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    This bibliography briefly discusses each of Shakespeare's plays. In the section on Hamlet, the article questions his reasonability. They suggest that the play within a play used to prove Claudius sin and the ghost's honesty does not adequately answer prove either side. This is because, "enough evidence remains in the play to suggest that the Ghost may yet be a "devil" intent on "abusing" the melancholic Hamlet by exhorting him to the kind of vengeance that Elizabethan Christians believed to belong only to God or to his deputed magistrates". In regards to his rationality, they suggest that if he wanted to prove the ghost's character he would have done so upon greeting the ghost. Because he does not it is "one of many indications in the text that he fails to put to proper use what he elsewhere describes as "godlike reason." A close examination of many of Hamlet's reflective speeches, including his celebrated. Additionally, in his famous speech "to be or not to be" shows us his irrationality and emotional trauma. With such a mentality, his actions could-and do-bring about tragedy that could have been avoided. As the article notes, "there is no doubt that Hamlet uncovers and 'sets right' much that is 'rotten in the state of Denmark'. The only question is whether the play invites us to consider a set of 'might have beens' that would have permitted us to approve of the protagonist even more unreservedly than we do".
Gideon Burton

hamletworks - 0 views

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    This looks like a great site for close readings of Hamlet line by line. A good portal to other resources, too.
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