122 Pages
by
Routledge
122 Pages
by
Routledge
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Activating Hamlet offers a new theory of Hamlet, highlighting how significant philosophical themes within the play mirror those that surround the text’s complex and mysterious bibliographical history.
Hamlet is a cornerstone of western literature, a play obsessed with the ideas of likeness, authenticity, and the relationship between a thing’s outer appearance and its hidden inner nature, yet... Read more
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One. The Origins of Hamlet
Q1, Q2, F. Shakespeare’s Hamlets
Chapter Two. Hamlet’s Early Editors
Chapter Three. The Discovery of Q1 and Current Theories on Hamlet
Chapter Four. The problem of universals: the one and the many in Elsinore
Likeness, Representation, Surfaces and Depths
Through indirections
Kings
Hauntings
Coda
Chapter Five. Hamlet, Words and Truth
Names, Natures and Reputations in Elsinore
Words with Agency, Ceremonies and Truth
Words, Documents and Authority
Coda
Chapter Six. Felski and Elsinore
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
Biography
Eddie Burton is Head of HE Performing Arts at ESPA Stamford, UK.
