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From:Books to Film: Cinematic Adaptations of Literary Works (Vol. 1. )William Shakespeare's Hamlet is a revenge tragedy, a dramatic form based on classical models that was popular in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In this play, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is visited by...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Supernatural Literature (Vol. 1: The Dead. )William Shakespeare In the tragedy Hamlet, William Shakespeare (1564–1616) presents the story of a young prince who avenges the murder of his father after an encounter with an angry ghost claiming to be the king....Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Shakespeare Studies (Vol. 40) Peer-ReviewedTHIS BRIEF ESSAY asks whether moral agency is a state of mind or a mode of action or some desirable combination of the two. It presupposes that most agency talk treats agency as a good thing to have and that, moreover,...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The English Review (Vol. 15, Issue 2)When there is a clash between what our heads and hearts tell us, what should we do? This is a question which often arises in real life, as well as in literature: there is no easy or clear-cut answer in either case. The...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Renaissance Quarterly (Vol. 52, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Renaissance was a period in which the honor code underwent a significant metamorphosis. The medieval, chivalric code of honor, with its emphasis on lineage, allegiance to one's lord and violence, evolved into an...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Estudios Irlandeses - Journal of Irish Studies (Issue SI 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article reads Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince (1973) as a retelling of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (1603), paying special attention to the changes that the original play has gone through in order to render it more...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Shakespeare Studies (Vol. 44) Peer-ReviewedWhile Shakespeare critics have discussed time, movement, and space--and even the relationship among the three, namely, distance divided by time equals rate--they have given only modest attention to changes in rate, or...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Shakespeare Studies (Vol. 39) Peer-ReviewedBEN JONSON'S THEATRICAL PAEAN TO SHOPPING, his 1609 Entertainment at Britain's Burse composed for the opening of the New Exchange in the presence of James I, opens with a shopboy calling out the standard patter of the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Critical Survey (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This article discusses four Hamlet adaptations produced in twentieth-century Japan: Naoya Shiga's 'Claudius's Diary' (1912), Hideo Kobayashi's 'Ophelia's Testament' (1931), Osamu Dazai's New Hamlet (1941) and...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Critical Survey (Vol. 31, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The first quarto of Hamlet offers a fundamentally distinct play from the versions contained in the second quarto and in the First Folio. Taking Q1 as an autonomous, finished text, and assuming that Q2 and F...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The AnaChronisT (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis essay discusses the links between counsel and subjectivity in the context of early modern English drama, with particular reference to Shakespeare's Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. Drawing on Foucault's notion of the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Crowl credits Branagh’s version of Much Ado about Nothing with renewing interest in Hollywood for Shakespeare films because of the way Branagh adapted the play’s Elizabethan...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 81. )Introduction The enigmatic influence of fate, fortune, and the heavens on the lives of human beings forms a compelling theme in Shakespearean drama. Frequently coupled with Christian connotations, these concepts...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Dalhousie Review[(essay date 1980) In the following essay, Merivale analyzes Hamlet’s Twin as a reimagining of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, praising Aquin’s use of the cinematic script as a structuring device. She also comments on...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: The Whirlwind of Passion: New Critical Perspectives on William Shakespeare[(essay date 2016) In the following essay, Ceramella summarizes the work of past critics regarding Shakespeare’s religion and notes aspects of the play that touch upon Protestantism and Catholicism.] [Hamlet,] a young...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Christianity and Literature (Vol. 67, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI argue that the Shakespeare of Hamlet was influenced by the debate between Erasmus and Luther on the question of free will. I approach this debate as a record of the tensions within Christian humanism and as a...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Critical Survey (Vol. 31, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Using interruptions as a specific formal structure, this article explores the varying characterisation of Ophelia/Ofelia in Hamlet. The textual differences apparent in the 'Nunnery' scene present an Ophelia...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 53, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn a conversation with the players visiting Elsinor, Shakespeare's Hamlet requests a performance of Aeneas's speech to Dido about the fall of Troy. "I remember one said there were no sallets [i.e., herbs or spices] in...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Early Modern Literary Studies (Vol. 12, Issue 19 SI) Peer-Reviewed1. In the Restoration period, Shakespeare's plays were regularly censured as barbaric products of a rude age. Writing in an era that prized classical models, critics expressed disappointment that Shakespeare's plots...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Christianity and Literature (Vol. 66, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis essay argues that in Hamlet, Shakespeare extends the conventional logic of Senecan revenge--the revenger's quest to redress crimes against kin through a course of retributive blood justice--to the matter of Old...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center