While Hamlet“is about the hermeneutic task,” its “circles within circles” of overt and covert interpreters, of stage and theater audiences (65), displace “Truth” “along the line of multiple and multiplying perspectives” (66). Using his “wit and word-play, to deflect the hermeneutic ...
Framed by introductory and concluding chapters that narrate personal experience as well as insight, this monograph “is only in the slightest sense a history of productions”—“really imitating a rehearsal” (22). The first chapter focuses on the action by following the script “line by line”...
Hamlet (1.4), Marcellus to Horatio This line spoken by Marcellus (and not Hamlet as is commonly believed) is one of the most recognizable lines in all of Shakespeare's works. Despite its fame, this line is left out of some productions of the play¹. The quote in context Shortly befor...
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the lines are set up so students can see the bard's original poetic phrases printed side-by-side and line-by-line with a modern "translation" on the facing page. Starting in the late 1580s and for several decades that followed, Shakespeare's plays were popular entertainment for London's ...
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Although in most productions Gertrude is oblivious to the danger, occasionally we will see a Gertrude who fully understands the implication of Claudius' suggestion "Gertrude, do not drink" (line 277), and drinks anyway, therefore committing suicide. For an example please see Peggy Downie's ...
Abriefcommentonthesoliloquybeginningwithline“Tobeornottobe…”Themonologue,apsychologicalexplorationoflifeanddeath,revealsthecharacterofHamletasamanofcontemplationratherthanaction.Withtheintolerableburdenofthedutytorevengehisfather’sdeathandthechallengeofevilforces,Hamletseemstowithdrawintoamentalworldwhichisthrowninto...
A brief comment on the soliloquy beginning with line “To be or not to be …” The monologue, a psychological exploration of life and death, reveals the character of Hamlet as a man of contemplation rather than action. With the intolerable burden of the duty to revenge his father’s death...
In the dark, shadowy foreground, separated by a gauze, Hamlet lay, as if dreaming. On Claudius's exit-line the figures remained but the gauze was loosened, so that they appeared to melt away as if Hamlet's thoughts had turned elsewhere. For this effect, the scene received an ovation, ...