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Understanding Hamlet : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents

Author: Richard Corum
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.
Series: '">Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Corum, Richard.
Understanding Hamlet.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998
(OCoLC)607114126
Online version:
Corum, Richard.
Understanding Hamlet.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998
(OCoLC)609320175
Named Person: William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Corum
ISBN: 0313298777 9780313298776
OCLC Number: 38249310
Description: xxi, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Series Title: Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series.
Responsibility: Richard Corum.

Abstract:

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 Through judicious selection of primary historical documents, the work provides contexts for understanding Hamlet's melancholy, the ghost of Hamlet's father, the theme of revenge, and Hamlet's feigned madness.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.

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