Young Hamlet : essays on Shakespeare's tragedies
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Young Hamlet : essays on Shakespeare's tragedies
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1989
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Includes index
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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.
Table of Contents
- 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".
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