...Anthony Low Hamlet in Purgatory . By Stephen Greenblatt . Princeton and Oxford : Princeton University Press , 2001 . Pp. xii + 322. Color Plates and Figures, 8 + 10. hc $29.95 . 0-691-05873-3. Hamlet in His Modern Guises . By Alexander Welsh . Princeton and Oxford...

...Russell Samolsky Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 T h e Tim e Is O u t o f J o i n t : H a m l e t , M essianism , a n d th e S p e cte r o f A pocalypse RUSSELL SAMOLSKY I. Khaki Hamlets I w ant to begin this piece on the orders o f apocalyptic and messianic...

... self as the royal son. But the gram m atical awk­ wardness o f kissing used h ere as a participial adjective called for a further explanation, provided byJenkins in a longer note at the end of his edition o f Hamlet a good eating apple is one which makes good eating; a good selling car is a m odel...

...Arthur F. Kinney Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Controversies of Self . By John Lee . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 2000 . Pp. xi + 266. hc. 0-19-818504-9. Copyright © 2002 Regents of the University of Colorado 2002 88 English Language Notes Shakespeare s H am let...

...Jeffrey R. Wilson Abstract Claudius likes to party—a bit too much. He frequently binge drinks, is arguably an alcoholic, but is not an aberration. Hamlet says that Denmark is internationally known for heavy drinking. That’s what Shakespeare would have heard in the sixteenth century...

... any interpretation of the script (16). The first part of the book critiques recent theater produc­ tions of the Henry history plays (mainly those in W ashington and New York), The Tempest (New York and Stratford-uponAvon) , and several versions of Hamlet (New York and Chicago). The second p art...

... provocative observations on Shakespeare s tragic endings. W hether it is the practical alliance between the leader Fortinbras and the bureaucratic H oratio at the close of Hamlet, or the quasi-medicinal blood-letting th a t concludes Timon of Athens, the healing process at the end of the tragedies is prag­...

...Frank McCormick Copyright © 2004 Regents of the University of Colorado 2004 December 2004 29 A SOURCE FOR ISAIAH THOMAS S PARODY ON SHAKESPEARE In his discussion of Hamlet as American Revolutionary Neil L. York quotes A Parody on Shakespeare a recasting of H am let s...

... to horror take many forms, often in ways that are ecophobic. Excess is complicated, fundamental not only to horror but to the disgust that leads to it. Shakespeare’s Hamlet , while hardly horror, is useful to the discussion here for the way in which it conceptualizes the dangerous and disgusting...

... be discarded. And in any case, why would anyone describe the Shakespeare of Romeo, Henry V, Hamlet, and Lear as the emerging dramatic author ? Does Erne mean that Shakespeare 82 English Language Notes had arrived as a playwright, b u t was still in transit as an author? Apparently so, even though the idea...

... we go so far for an Excuse, as to conclude that Shakespear was him self a Catholick? This some Critics have imagin'd to be true, from the solemn Description of Purgatory given us by his Ghost in Hamlet, yet here, I doubt, the Conjecture is too strong; that Description being rather to be consider'd...

... that Shakespeare the amateur wrote, knowing it would be discarded. And in any case, why would anyone describe the Shakespeare of Romeo, Henry V, Hamlet, and Lear as the emerging dramatic author ? Does Erne mean that Shakespeare had arrived as a playwright, but was still in transit as an author? Apparentiy so...

... of White Jacket and Shakespeare, I suggest this following set, citing the occasion only, letting commentators arise as may please: WhiteJacket angels, new-lighted upon earth, from some star in the Milky Way (222) Hamlet the herald M ercury/ New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill (3.4.58-9...

... f Lear is Septem ber 2001 83 not K ent s stoicism b u t the Fool s Erasmian foolosophy, and A lexander Leggati discusses how the fly-killing scene in Titus, the Deposition scene in Richard II, and the How all occasions scene in Hamlet, though detachable from the action, reflect forwards...

... of aware­ ness.4 Kyd s methods influenced, among others, Woodstock (159194), Marston s Antonio s Revenge (1599) and The Malcontent (1604), The Revenger s Tragedy (1607), Shakespeare s Hamlet (1608), Robert Tailor s The Hog hath lost his pearl (1613), Middleton s Women Beware Women (c.1625), Massinger s...

...Travis Curtright Copyright © 2002 Regents of the University of Colorado 2002 September 2002 43 2John Gross, Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992) 27. 3Gross 55. RECONSIDERING THE TRAGIC ASPECTS OF LEONTES: DEATH AND LAUGHTER IN THE WINTER S TALE If Hamlet...

... & Schuster, 1992) 27. 3Gross 55. RECONSIDERING THE TRAGIC ASPECTS OF LEONTES: DEATH AND LAUGHTER IN THE WINTER S TALE If Hamlet is Shakespeare s most enigmatic depiction of a tragic character s confused motivations, then Leontes might be his comedic counterpart. As audiences are mystified why Ham­ let does...

...-class parents. Thanks to me, the bawd declares, you two lovers [szc] can marry despite Pamphilus s lesser class rank. Este mei memores, the old woman concludes the play. The Latin-speaking ghost of Hamlet s father was saying precisely that, Remember me, for inscription upon his son s clean-wiped...

... Press. An invited contributor to The Encyclopedia o f Plague, Pestilence, and Pandemic, Totaro's essay "Securing Sleep in Hamlet" is forthcoming from Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, and she has joined with Ernest B. Gilman to edit a collection of scholarly articles titled Literary Adaptations...

... of a threat throughout Hamlet than is usually recognized. The goal of Octavius Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra is not, Levin argues, to keep the queen alive but to finagle this other secret schemer into committing suicide. This he does by working to create and then destroy the expectation that she could...