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Hide Fox, and All After – What Lies Concealed in Shakespeare`s Hamlet?

Autor J. D. Winter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 aug 2017
Is there anything more to say on Hamlet, this most-discussed of plays? It has become a hive of furious theorising, an anthill of scholarly research. Author J. D. Winter looks at the text afresh, seeing it as something to be viewed through a play-goers eyes: what is taking place on stage, and that only. He adopts three phrases from the text to provide a context for his approach: the plays the thing, a rhapsody of words, and the invisible event. The first suggests the spectacle itself, without regard to what has been written about it. There is no reference to outside opinion nor is another literary work named. The second indicates an awareness of the text as poem. While the tremendous sweep of Shakespearean blank verse-the prose-paragraphs on fire with their own poetry, the whispering gallery of metaphor-can scarcely be accorded proper respect in a prose commentary, certain rhapsodic effects are noted. Finally, the play is contained within a mystery. There is the question of the princes mental state, that so consumes other characters; there is the question of his procrastination, which he himself is desperate about. But the larger question, which in one shape or another has dogged critics down the ages, has to do with the drift of the action towards its culmination, including the way the mind of the audience (or reader) is taken on board. There can be no definitive answer to Hamlet or Hamlet. But like a signpost in a swarming mist, the third phrase may offer a faint clue: the invisible event. [Subject: Hamlet, Shakespeare, Literary Criticism, Theatre Studies]
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ISBN-13: 9781845198879
ISBN-10: 1845198875
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 140 x 215 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Liverpool University Press

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J. D. Winter is a retired schoolmaster. From 1994 to 2006 he lived in Kolkata, India, where he taught, wrote articles and translated Bengali poetry and prose (Anvil/Carcanet publications). His UK-published books include Song Offerings by Rabindranath Tagore; Bengal the Beautiful, a sonnet-sequence by Jibanananda Das; and Calcutta Song, an account of living in Kolkata. In addition Sussex Academic Press has brought out Two Loves I Have, a study of Shakespeare's Sonnets; Hide Fox, and All After, an exploration of Hamlet; and The Song of Beowulf: A new transcreation.