Author: Mary Cowden Clarke
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Languages : en
Pages : 882
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The Complete Concordance to SHakspere
An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by Shakespeare
Author: Samuel Ayscough
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Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by Shakspeare
Author: Samuel Ayscough
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words
Author: Samuel Ayscough
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Dramatic Works
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Shakspeare's Dramatic Works
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Adventures in the Apache Country
Author: John Ross Browne
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Dramatic Works with Explanatory Notes. A New Ed., to which is Now Added a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words by Samuel Ayscough
Author: William Shakespeare
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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Languages : en
Pages : 698
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Plays
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Pages : 324
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The Elizabethan Hamlet
Author: Arthur McGee
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300039887
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This original and provocative reinterpretation of Hamlet presents the play as the original audiences would have viewed it--a much bleaker, stronger, and more deeply religious play than it has usually been assumed to be. Arthur McGee draws a picture of a Devil-controlled Hamlet in the damnable Catholic court of Elsinore, and he shows that the evil natures of the Ghost and of Hamlet himself were understood and accepted by the Protestant audiences of the day. Using material gleaned from an investigation of play-censorship, McGee offers a comprehensive discussion of the Ghost as Demon. He then moves to Hamlet, presenting him as satanic, damned as revenger in the tradition of the Jacobean revenge drama. There are, he shows, no good ghosts, and Purgatory, whence the Ghost came, was reviled in Protestant England. The Ghost's manipulation extends to Hamlet's fool/madman role, and Hamlet's soliloquy reveals the ambition, conscience, and suicidal despair that damn him. With this viewpoint, McGee is able to shed convincing new light on various aspects of the play. He effectively strips Ophelia and Laertes of their sentimentalized charm, making them instead chillingly convincing, and he works through the last act to show damnation everywhere. In an epilogue, he sums up the history of criticism of Hamlet, demonstrating the process by which the play gradually lost its Elizabethan bite. Appendixes develop aspects of Ophelia.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300039887
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This original and provocative reinterpretation of Hamlet presents the play as the original audiences would have viewed it--a much bleaker, stronger, and more deeply religious play than it has usually been assumed to be. Arthur McGee draws a picture of a Devil-controlled Hamlet in the damnable Catholic court of Elsinore, and he shows that the evil natures of the Ghost and of Hamlet himself were understood and accepted by the Protestant audiences of the day. Using material gleaned from an investigation of play-censorship, McGee offers a comprehensive discussion of the Ghost as Demon. He then moves to Hamlet, presenting him as satanic, damned as revenger in the tradition of the Jacobean revenge drama. There are, he shows, no good ghosts, and Purgatory, whence the Ghost came, was reviled in Protestant England. The Ghost's manipulation extends to Hamlet's fool/madman role, and Hamlet's soliloquy reveals the ambition, conscience, and suicidal despair that damn him. With this viewpoint, McGee is able to shed convincing new light on various aspects of the play. He effectively strips Ophelia and Laertes of their sentimentalized charm, making them instead chillingly convincing, and he works through the last act to show damnation everywhere. In an epilogue, he sums up the history of criticism of Hamlet, demonstrating the process by which the play gradually lost its Elizabethan bite. Appendixes develop aspects of Ophelia.