Hamlet: Language and Writing

Informationen zum Autor Dympna Callaghan is William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters in the Department of English at Syracuse University. She has published widely on the playwrights and poets of the English Renaissance and was President of the Shakespeare Association of America in 2012-13. Callaghan has held fellowships at the Folger, Huntington and Newberry Libraries, at the Getty Research Centre in Los Angeles, and, most recently, at the Bogliasco Center for Arts and Humanities in Liguria, Italy. Klappentext This lively and informative guide reveals Hamlet as marking a turning point in Shakespeare's use of language and dramatic form as well as addressing the key problem at the play's core: Hamlet's inaction. It also looks at recent critical approaches to the play and its theatre history, including the recent David Tennant / RSC Hamlet on both stage and TV screen. Vorwort A new type of study guide which combines an exploration of Shakespeare's language with specific help for students looking to develop their own critical responses and skills. This lively and informative guide uses close reading of Hamlet ’s complex language to explore its themes and plot. Zusammenfassung A new type of study guide which combines an exploration of  Shakespeare's language with. specific help for students looking to develop their own critical responses and skills. Hamlet remains the most studied of Shakespeare's tragedies and this guide examines it as a turning point in his writing career.

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• Authors: Dympna Callaghan, Dympna (Syracuse University Callaghan, Prof. Dympna Callaghan, Prof. Dympna (Syracuse University Callaghan, Callaghan Dympna
• Assisted by: Dympna Callaghan (Editor)
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.2015
• EAN: 9781408154892
• ISBN: 978-1-4081-5489-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Arden Student Guides; Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing; Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing; Arden Student Skills: Language
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean