Hamlet closely observed. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Martin Dodsworth ; with a preface by L.C. Knights.
• Other Names: Dodsworth, Martin
• Contents: Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Honour and the Polonius household; Prince Hamlet; The containment of honour; The practice of honour; Polonius and the honour of the family; Laertes returns; Honour and contradiction; Raising questions; 2 Hamlet, body and soul; Dissatisfied spirit, unhappy body; An old-fashioned hero; Ghostliness; Sullied flesh; Body, spirit, soul; 3 Hamlet and the Ghost; Heart and tongue; Honour in the breach; Hamlet's Hamlet; Nature's nature; The heart of the mystery; 4 Hamlet's weakness; Hamlet's sigh. Polonius and Claudius: In the world of the everydayHamlet's stability; The shape of melancholy; Weakness and melancholy; 5 Hamlet and his inferiors; The rogue and peasant slave; The Prince and the Player Hamlet as honest man; 6 Hamlet's being; Detachment and theatricality; Nobility and suicide; Roman thoughts; First person plural; Seneca and the slipperiness of Stoicism; Dreaming; Being; 7 Hamlet and Ophelia; Depths; A shift in weight; The weight does shift; Surface and depth; Don Jnanism; Ophelia; 8 Hamlet's theatre; The storm; The calm; A necessary question; Dumbshow and speech; Wormwood. A knavish piece of workThe quick-change artist; 9 Claudius and Gertrude; Abstraction; The defeat of intellect; God's actors; A tableau; Sense apoplex'd; True colour; Excitements of my reason and my blood; A body possessed; The actor who plays from thought; 10 Burlesque, parody and fugue; Breaking up; The natural body; The King, the prince and the old man; The extravaganza of mind; Metamorphoses; Shapes and tricks; 11 Graveyard thoughts; Adam was a gentleman; A courteous and casual eye; Lying in the grave; Different from us; On stage again; 12 Heaven ordinant; Providence. An ambiguous revelationDark backward; Excuses; Dieu et mon droit; 13 Hamlet's end; Osric; The sparrow; Capitulation; The fight; Hamlet's fate -- and the King's; Most royal; Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (329 pages)
• Subjects: 822.3/3; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700; DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature -- Early modern; Electronic books; Characters -- Hamlet
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781472506627; 1472506626
• Related ISBNs: 9781472507730
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 7, 2014).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.