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Sites about Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, needs to avenge his father’s murder; this is complicated by the fact that the murderer is his own uncle, who has married Hamlet’s mother (Gertrude). Hamlet eventually gets his revenge, but not before just about everyone dies.

Characters: Hamlet, Ophelia, Gertrude, Polonius, ghost of Hamlet’s father
Keywords: Denmark, play within a play, Oedipus complex

Critical sites about Hamlet

Certain Speculations on Hamlet, the Calendar, and Martin Luther
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-1/sohmshak.html
“This essay takes the view that Shakespeare linked the principal events in Hamletto particular holy days, and that the play’s first audiences could identify these holy days from cues in the text.” Special attention is paid to the possible relationship between Hamlet and the life and theology of Martin Luther.
Contains: Content Analysis, Historical Context, Character Analysis
Author: Steve Sohmer
From: Early Modern Literary Studies 2.1 (1996): 5.1-51
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Hamlet and His Problems
https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/the-sacred-wood/hamlet-and-his-problems/
“T.S. Eliot�s essay on Shakespeare�s greatest tragic character in which he coined the famous doctrine of the ‘objective correlative.'”
Contains: Character Analysis
Author: T.S. Eliot
From: The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism 1922
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Hamlet Haven
http://www.hamlethaven.com/
An online, annotated bibliography, featuring character studies and different interperative approaches.
Contains: Plot Summary, Character Analysis, Historical Context, Content Analysis, Bibliography,
Author: Harmonie Blankenship
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Hamlet’s Thoughts and Antics
http://eserver.org/emc/1-2/degrazia.html
Essay draft which includes a response by Juliet Fleming.
Author: Margreta de Grazia
From: Early Modern Culture. Issue 2 (2001)
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Leading the Gaze: From Showing to Telling in Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V and Hamlet
http://chass.utoronto.ca/emls/06-1/hatchbra.htm
“Film studies have reached the conclusion that cinema merges the acts of showingand telling. This essay applies these theories to two of Kenneth Branagh’s screenadaptations Henry V (1989) and Hamlet (1996). Cinematic editing can shape spaceat will, create different levels of realities, and reorganize the succession of events intime. The moves and effects of the camera, by progressively revealing the people,the set or the action, add a time dimension to space. Cinematic narration defines anitinerary of the gaze, imposing a trajectory inside Shakespeare’s plays, until theplots seem to prevail over discourse.”
Contains: Content Analysis,
Author: Sarah Hatchuel
From: Early Modern Literary Studies 6.1 (May, 2000): 3.1-22
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Making Mother Matter: Repression, Revision, and the Stakes of ‘Reading Psychoanalysis Into’ Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet
http://chass.utoronto.ca/emls/06-1/lehmhaml.htm
“Hamlet’s peculiar bond with his mother has been the focus of numerousproductions of Shakespeare’s play on stage and screen. Influenced bypsychoanalysis, filmed versions of Hamlet in particular have emphasized the desirebetween sons and mothers and, in so doing, have uncannily reproduced the play’sown Oedipalized attachment to the maternal. Following Franco Zeffirelli’smother-centered film (1990), Kenneth Branagh attempts to break with this traditionin his self-proclaimed ‘non-Oedipal’ Hamlet (1996). Actively positioned againstpsychoanalysis, Branagh’s Hamlet avoids any representations of non-normativesexual desire, repressing the sexualized maternal body with a vengeance anddisplacing Hamlet’s desire onto his surrogate father, who offers ‘metal moreattractive’ for this Hamlet and, as we shall see, for Branagh himself. In so doing,Branagh’s adaptation actually becomes the most ‘symptomatic’ Hamlet film evermade, for it uses this performance as a screen both for projecting — and forcuring–what’s the matter with Branagh, namely, his Irish motherland, and hiscompromised Shakespearean credentials as a postcolonial subject.”
Author: Lehmann, Courtney, and Lisa S. Starks.
From: Early Modern Literary Studies 6.1 (May, 2000): 2.1-24
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Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments of Hamlet
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/nec/BROWN21.HTM
An analysis of Shakespeare’s handling of the final moments of Hamlet’s life. Also provided are links to responses to this paper that were written by other Shakespeare scholars, and published in later issues of Connotations.
Author: John Russell Brown
From: Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 2.1 (1992): 16-33
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‘Too Much in the (Black) Sun’: Hamlet’s First Soliloquy, A Kristevan View
http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v2no2/crunelle.htm
“It may appear to be sheer provocation to attempt a psychoanalytic reading of Shakespeare, be it Kristevan or other, in a decade placed under the rule of the New Historicism.”
Contains: Content Analysis
Author: Anny Crunelle-Vanrigh
From: Renaissance Forum: An Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical Studies Autumn 1997; vol. 2 no. 2
Keywords: psychoanalysis
 

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