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Hamlet's Fictions (Hardcover)
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Hamlet's Fictions (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Hamlet
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"But in a fiction, in a dream of passion..." In an extended
commentary on this passage this book offers a rationale for the
excellence and primacy of this play among the tragedies.
Throughout, emphasis is placed on Hamlet's fantasies and
imaginations rather than on ethical criteria, and on the depiction
of Hamlet as a revenge play through an exploration of its dark and
mysterious aspects. The book stresses the importance of Passion and
Its Fictions in the play and attempts to explore the very
Pirandellian topic of Hamlet's passion and dream of passion. It
goes on to examine the organization of dramatic energies in the
play - the use Shakespeare makes of analogy and infinite regress
and of scene rows, broken scenes and impacted scenes, and the
significance of the exact middle of Hamlet. The final section is
devoted to conventions of style, imagery, and genre in the play -
what is the stage situation of asides, soliloguies, and offstage
speech? How is the imagery of skin disease and sealing distinctive?
In what sense is Hamlet a comedy, or does it use comedy
significantly?
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