Young Hamlet
Barbara Everett(Author)
Clarendon Press
Published on 1. October 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
238 pages
978-0-19-812254-8 (ISBN)
Description
These essays attempt to offer new ideas about Shakespeare's tragedies. The author argues for the primacy of patterns drawn from the most common human experience. Asking why Shakespeare makes Hamlet a student, the first essay, "Growing", proposes a new reading which aims to recover a forgotten older view of the place of the young within the social order. The essays on "Macbeth", "Othello" and "King Lear" give a comparably acute sense of the bearing of these works on ordinary human life, and suggest why they continue to have such a unique psychological appeal. Four of these studies were first delivered as the Lord Northcliffe Lectures for 1988 at University College, London.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
ISBN-13
978-0-19-812254-8 (9780198122548)
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Content
Part 1 Purchasing experience: "Hamlet" - growing; "Othello" - mixing; "King Lear" - loving; "Macbeth" - succeeding. Part 2 Approaches to the tragedies: "Romeo and Juliet" - the nurse's story; "Hamlet" - a time to die; textual readings and reading the text of "Hamlet"; the inaction of "Troilus and Cressida"; Spanish Othello - the making of Shakespeare's Moor; two damned cruces - "Othello" and "Twelfth Night".