Style in Hamlet / / Maurice Charney.

Shakespeare intended his plays to be seen, not read. With this thought uppermost in mind, Charney offers here a provocative analysis of Hamlet, the most stylistically inventive of all Shakespeare's plays, strictly in terms of its style-by which he means the distinct modes of expression used by...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1969
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 2381
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Physical Description:1 online resource (356 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Key to References
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. IMAGERY
  • 1. War, Weapons, and Explosives
  • 2. Secrecy and Poison
  • 3. Corruption
  • 4. Limits
  • 5. Art, Acting, and the Theater
  • PART TWO. STAGING AND STRUCTURE
  • 6. Gesture and Stage Action
  • 7. Sound Effects and Music, Costumes, and Stage Properties
  • 8. "The Very Cunning of the Scene"
  • PART THREE. DRAMATIC CHARACTER
  • 9. Claudius: "Break not your sleeps for that"
  • 10. Polonius: " 'Beautified' is a vile phrase"- " 'Mobled queen' is good"
  • 11. Hamlet: 'How pregnant sometimes his replies are"
  • Conclusion
  • Index