Hamlet: Language and Writing
1st Edition
Published on 23. April 2015
232 pages
978-1-4742-1604-3 (ISBN)
Description
This lively and informative guide reveals Hamlet as marking a turning point in Shakespeare's use of language and dramatic form as well as addressing the key problem at the play's core: Hamlet's inaction. It also looks at recent critical approaches to the play and its theatre history, including the recent David Tennant / RSC Hamlet on both stage and TV screen.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4742-1604-3 (9781474216043)
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Content
- FC
- Half title
- Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series editor's preface
- Preface
- How to use this book
- Introduction
- Language
- Hamlet in Shakespeare's career
- Historical context
- Hamlet in criticism
- Writing matters
- 1 Language in print
- 'What do you read, my lord?'
- Shakespeare's bad language
- 'To be or not to be'
- Ofelia
- Is Q1 bad?
- Genre
- 'Poem unlimited'?
- Tragedy
- Revenge tragedy
- Right revenge
- Tragic precedent
- Reflections on revenge
- 'Now to my word'
- Revenge and memory
- Review
- Writing matters
- 2 Language: forms and uses
- 1. The theme of language: 'Words, words, words'
- Language as an idea
- Language barriers
- Words and meanings
- Word and deed
- Problem words: fat Hamlet
- Who is speaking, and to whom? Soliloquy and aside
- Aside
- Talking to himself
- First soliloquy
- Thinking out loud
- 2. The craft of language
- Blank verse
- Shakespeare and Marlowe
- Shakespeare's rhetorical techniques: Passage analysis
- Rhyme and lyricism
- Prose madness
- Thomas Nashe
- Rhetoric
- Rhetorical terms
- Hamlet without words: 'The rest is silence'
- Review
- Writing matters
- 3 Language through time
- 1. Character: 'Naked'
- Philosophical Hamlet: 'What?'
- Montaigne's scepticism
- Describing Hamlet
- 2. Power and gender
- Power: 'This warlike state'
- High politics
- Hamlet the assassin
- Hierarchy: 'Here's fine revolution'
- Whores and harlots
- Widows
- Hamlet and Oedipus
- The double standard
- '[L]ike a whore'
- Violence against women: 'words like daggers'
- Ophelia: 'Her speech is nothing'
- Nothing
- 'The woman will be out'
- Male bonding
- Review
- Writing matters
- 4 Writing an essay: 'Mark the play'
- From Shakespeare's writing to your own
- Selecting a topic
- The argument
- Your thesis statement
- Research
- Why are you doing this?
- Bibliography and further reading
- Editions of the play
- Films
- Theatrical performances
- Websites
