Students, theater-goers, and readers today still enjoy his work, long after his death in 1616. One of the features that make Shakespeare's work so famous is his artistic use of figurative language, or the use of language to invoke a mental image or leave an artistic effect in the mind...
Hamlet also uses metaphors in his famous soliloquy to his friends, also in act 2, scene 2, when he refers to the sky: "this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire." What literary devices are used in Hamlets first soliloquy? Hamlet's first soliloquy ...
Could this barb be directed at the famous Elizabethan clown William Kempe? 2. We learn much about Horatio in this scene. He is poor but happy, and he remains dignified and thankful despite enduring many hardships. Above all, Horatio is stoic -- he is not the slave of his impulses. ...
This monograph provides “some sense of the performance history ofHamlet, differences among interpretations, and the multiplicity of possible ways of reading and enacting this most famous and slippery of plays” (3). Chapters are divided into periods of importance (e.g., post-WWII), transitions...
Hamlet chomps on acigar, wields anUzi, and delivers the opening line of the famous speech—and gives it an answer—as a church explodes behind him: “To be or not to be? Not to be.” Other lines from the monologue have found their way into pop culture. Thesci-fifilmStar Trek VI:...