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From: Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Crowl credits Branagh’s version of Much Ado about Nothing with renewing interest in Hollywood for Shakespeare films because of the way Branagh adapted the play’s Elizabethan...
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From: Celts and Their Cultures at Home and Abroad: A Festschrift for Malcolm Broun[(essay date 2013) In the following essay, MacQuarrie analyzes references to Celtic culture in Shakespeare’s plays. Noting the use of Celtic accents for comedic effect, he argues that “in Henry V the comedic center is no...
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From: Creative Dialogues: Narrative and Medicine[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Barbudo discusses the depiction of various forms of madness in pre-twentieth-century productions of Macbeth and other Shakespeare plays.] At the beginning of a paper entitled...
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From:Shakespeare in Southern Africa (Vol. 19) Peer-ReviewedHamlet: directed by Garth Anderson and Clare Mortimer, performed by the Actor's Cooperative and The Playhouse Company Natal Playhouse. 9 February 2007. Hamlet Deconstructed: directed by Debbie Lutge, performed by...
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From: Explicator[(essay date spring 1996) In the following essay, Heginbotham discusses Dickinson's "What if I say I shall not wait!" as an interpretation of Hamlet.] What if I say I shall Not wait! What if I burst the fleshly Gate--...
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From: Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Lanier credits Branagh with significant developments of the Shakespeare film, focusing on his production of Hamlet (1996) and how he accommodated the play for film with the...
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From: Studies in Scottish Literature[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Higdon discusses the use of revenge as a matter of individual, rather than tribal, justice in Welsh’s work through the publication of Glue, comparing his fiction with...
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From: The Undiscover'd Country: New Essays on Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Bock examines the seemingly contradictory dual unity in "The Phoenix and Turtle," contending that the same paradox is present in Shakespeare's Hamlet, which was written...
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 86. )Introduction Research by cultural anthropologists and historians has contributed greatly to our understanding of the significance of ritual and ceremony in Shakespeare's plays. These scholars have demonstrated that...
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 75. )Introduction Music is pervasive in Shakespeare's plays. According to J. L. Styan (1988), approximately 32 plays and over 500 text passages make reference to music. The critic also notes that there are at least 300...
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 80. )Introduction Shakespeare's numerous depictions of marriage in his comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances suggest the pivotal importance of this subject to his dramas. Contemporary scholars are interested in...
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From: Reconsidering Shakespeare’s ‘Lateness’: Studies in the Last Plays[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Chen utilizes a topic approach to discuss Cymbeline (circa 1610). Among his essay sections are peculiarities of the play, topics the play is concerned with, the location of the...
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From: He Said, She Says: An RSVP to the Male Text[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Aguiar places Ladder of Years among other contemporary female-authored novels inspired by William Shakespeare’s King Lear that re-envision the play’s heroine.] A popular tale...
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 73. )Introduction Whether in relation to history, tragedy, or romance, the depiction of family is a ubiquitous element in Shakespearean drama. Indeed, some critics contend that the subject of family relations figures...
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 83. )Introduction The theme of friendship is prevalent in Shakespeare's works, from his comedies and romances to his histories and tragedies, and is personified in such pairs as Hamlet and Horatio of Hamlet, Rosalind and...
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 82. )Introduction In addition to being his most popular tragedy, Hamlet (c. 1600) is Shakespeare's most frequently analyzed play. In fact, critics have noted that Hamlet has inspired more critical writing than any other...
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From: Fundamental Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Gender, Psychology and Politics[(essay date 2016) In the following essay, Ramazani and Fazlzadeh apply trauma theory to Hamlet, concluding that he shows the signs of being clinically traumatized.] Introduction The catastrophic twenty-first...
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From: Metatheater and Modernity: Baroque and Neobaroque[(essay date 2013) In the following essay, Witt explains the “play-within-a-play” in Hamlet and relates it to three metatheatrical commentaries on Hamlet, Luigi Pirandello’s Enrico IV (1922) and Tom Stoppard’s adaptation...
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From: Shakespeare; the Man and the Book: Being a Collection of Occasional Papers on the Bard and His Writings[(essay date 1877) In the following essay, Ingleby notes that he is not creating a reading of Hamlet but a study of the psychological aspects of the character Hamlet.] In the Tragedy of Hamlet we are presented with a...
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From: Studies of Shakespeare in the Plays of King John, Cymbeline, Macbeth, As You Like It, Much Ado about Nothing, Romeo and Juliet: With Observations on the Criticism and the Acting of Those Plays[(essay date 1847) In the following essay, Fletcher argues that the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is brought upon them “independent of any defect of character or impropriety.” He suggests that as victims of “ill-fortune,”...