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Shakespeare's “Hamlet” bound with The Problem of Hamlet book cover

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Shakespeare's “Hamlet” bound with The Problem of Hamlet

By A. Clutton-Brock, J. M. Robertson Copyright 2014
224 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume combines two classic works on Hamlet, first published in 1919 and 1922. The first book's original description says that it contains a theory which attempts to explain an everlasting problem - it insists that Hamlet is neither a failure not an accident, but a very great work of art. In a final chapter, the play is examined as an aesthetic document. It is a profoundly interesting and... Read more

1. The Case Against "Hamlet"  2. Why Hamlet Delayed to Kill the King  3. On "Hamlet" as an Aesthetic Document.  Appendix: Did Hamlet Delay to Kill the King?

 

Preface  Part 1. The Aesthetic Problem  1. Subjective Theories  2. Objective Theories  3. Theory of Defect in the Dramatist  4. The Growth of the Play  Part 2: The Documentary Problem  1. The Pre-Shakespearean Play  2. The Old German Version  Part 3: Kyd's Probable Construction  1. Superfluous Survivals  2. Was Kyd's "Hamlet" a Double Play?  3. Irrelevant Scenes  Part 4: Shakespeare's Work of Transmutation  1. Old Action: New Psychosis  2. The Infusion of Pessimism  3. The Upshot

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A. Clutton-Brock, J. M. Robertson

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