| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 178 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright information; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Medieval Hamlet Gains a Family; Chapter Two: Hamlet's Mourning and Revenge Tragedy; Chapter Three: History, as between Goethe's Hamlet and Scott's; Chapter Four: Hamlet's Expectations, Pip's Great Guilt; Chapter Five: Hamlet Decides to Be a Modernist; Index. |
| Summary |
Focusing on Shakespeare's Hamlet as foremost a study of grief, Alexander Welsh offers a powerful analysis of its protagonist as the archetype of the modern hero. For over two centuries writers and critics have viewed Hamlet's persona as a fascinating blend of self-consciousness, guilt, and wit. Yet in order to understand more deeply the modernity of this Shakespearean hero, Welsh first situates Hamlet within the context of family and mourning as it was presented in other revenge tragedies of Shakespeare's time. Revenge, he maintains, appears as a function of mourning rather than an end in its. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Hamlet (Shakespeare, William) |
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Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Hamlet (Legendary character)
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Hamlet (Legendary character) |
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Modernism (Literature)
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Heroes in literature.
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Heroes in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Welsh, Alexander. Hamlet in his modern guises. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001 0691050937 (DLC) 00038563 (OCoLC)43864337 |
| ISBN |
1400814804 (electronic book) |
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9781400814800 (electronic book) |
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9781400824120 |
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1400824125 |
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