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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 120. )INTRODUCTION Hamlet is one of the most famous dramas in all of Western literature. Most modem scholars believe that Shakespeare wrote the tragedy at the turn of the seventeenth century, no earlier than 1598 and no later...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 137. )INTRODUCTION One of the most well-known and esteemed plays in English literary history, Hamlet (c. 1598-1601) is acclaimed for the depth of its strongly defined characters, the intensity of its tragedy, and the richness...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 82. )INTRODUCTION In addition to being his most popular tragedy, Hamlet (c. 1600) is Shakespeare's most frequently analyzed play. In fact, critics have noted that Hamlet has inspired more critical writing than any other work...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 111. )INTRODUCTION Written at the turn of the seventeenth century, Hamlet has been studied and staged regularly for more than four hundred years, with each new generation applying its own set of historical and cultural values...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 92. )INTRODUCTION Generally regarded as one of the greatest dramatic tragedies ever written, Hamlet (ca. 1600-01) has prompted an enduring critical interest equal to or surpassing that of any other work in the English...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 102. )INTRODUCTION Hamlet, composed circa 1600, is Shakespeare's most popular tragedy among critics as well as on stage and screen. The play has been the subject of more scholarly investigation than any work of Western...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 35. )INTRODUCTION Acknowledged as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, Hamlet centers on the actions of a young Danish prince called upon by a ghost to avenge his father's murder at the hands of his uncle, King Claudius....Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 59. )INTRODUCTION Hamlet is, quite simply, the best known of Shakespeare's plays and the most famous play in Western literature. It is not hard to see why it enjoys such an exalted status. The play, which dates from the...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 129. )INTRODUCTION Composed between 1598 and 1601, Hamlet is one of the most famous works of Western literature and Shakespeare's most popular tragedy. It has been staged, adapted, and translated continually over the past four...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 147. )INTRODUCTION Shakespeare's most popular tragedy, Hamlet was composed sometime between 1598 and 1601. It initially appeared in the First, or "Bad" Quarto of 1603, possibly transcribed by an actor from memory, and then in...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 44. )INTRODUCTION For further information on the critical and stage history of Hamlet, see SC Volumes 1, 21, and 35. The psychoanalytical criticism of Hamlet is dominated largely by discussion of Hamlet's apparent oedipal...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 71. )INTRODUCTION Considered to be the world's most popular tragedy, Hamlet combines the emotional power of a family in crisis with the political intrigue surrounding the corruption of the Danish court. Hamlet finds himself...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 1. )DATE: The date of Hamlet's composition has been designated as being after 1598 but prior to 1602. The earlier date is determined by its exclusion from the list of Shakespeare's works in Francis Meres's Palladis Tamia,...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From: Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human SoulIn the following essay, Blits offers an overview of Hamlet, examines the play's characters, language, structure, and content, and argues that play provides a critique of the Renaissance. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2001....Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Contemporary Literary Criticism (Vol. 86. )INTRODUCTION Aimed primarily at adults, graphic narratives present fiction and nonfiction featuring complex plots and serious themes in a comic-book format. One of the first adaptations of literature to a graphic...Found in Contemporary Literary Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 68. )INTRODUCTION Recent commentary on the question of revenge in Shakespeare's plays frequently alludes to the dramatic genre known as revenge tragedy, a form that achieved widespread popularity in the late Elizabethan and...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 105. )INTRODUCTION Scholars have long recognized the significance of the ghost as one of the central supernatural motifs in the Shakespearean dramatic canon, identifying apparitions in as many as fourteen of the plays. Spirits...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 83. )INTRODUCTION The theme of friendship is prevalent in Shakespeare's works, from his comedies and romances to his histories and tragedies, and is personified in such pairs as Hamlet and Horatio of Hamlet, Rosalind and...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 123. )INTRODUCTION Shakespearean drama contains myriad references to external forces often believed to shape human destiny. Whether these forces are considered to be a manifestation of chance, accident, necessity, fortune,...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Drama Criticism (Vol. 55. )INTRODUCTION First performed circa 1587 and published in 1592, The Spanish Tragedy is often credited with popularizing the genre of the revenge tragedy, a staple of classical Roman dramatic literature that became a...Found in Drama Criticism