...Jonathan Arac Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Jonathan Arac Hamlet, Little Dorrit, and the History of Character The most urgent agenda for contemporary literary theory involves all that it will take to forge a new literary history. From Fredric Jameson s slogan, always...

...Robert Withington Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 SHAKESPEARE, HAMLET, AND US Robert Withington ONE OF THE most penetrating dramatic criticisms I know is attributed to a mid-Western editor whose name escapes me: The oft-disputed question concerning the authorship of Hamlet can...

...D. R. Howard Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 HAMLET AND THE CONTEMPT OF THE WORLD D. R. Howard HE CENTRAL struggle in Hamlet is whether Hamlet should I kill the king out of private motives of blood-revenge or await the time when heaven will direct him in an act of public...

...John W. Draper A History of Hamlet Criticism . By Conklin Paul S. . New York : King’s Crown Press , 1947 . Pp. x , 176 . $2.75 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Book Reviews 431 of Renaissance Latin literature, of the various vernaculars of the period...

...Charles A. Dawson Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 HAMLET THE ACTOR CHARLES A. DAWSON IN THE PLAY Hamlet is a lonely figure, a fact which is quite justly the pivot about which critical theories revolve. Shakespeare sets up no foil for Hamlet; he has no fellow. His association...

...Louis Hasley Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The Hamlet of Peter De Vries: To Wit or Not to Wit Louis Hasley How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood? Something made me think of that childhood tongue teaser when I began considering the role of wit...

...James Lill Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Some Semi-Apocryphal Additions to Johnson s Notes on Hamlet James Lill The business of him that republishes an ancient book is, says Johnson in his Proposals for an Edition of Shakespeare, to correct what is corrupt, and to explain...

...J. A. Bryant, Jr. An Approach to Hamlet . By Knights L. C. . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1961 . Pp. 91 . $2.75 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 504 The South Atlantic Quarterly after King Lear. Of these, the volume treats only three in the concluding...

...Victor H. Strandberg Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 The Revenger s Tragedy: Hamlet s Costly Code Victor II. Strandberg By the time Shakespeare s Hamlet was produced around 1600, over fifteen centuries had elapsed since the Crucifixion and its epochal promulgation of the ideal...

...Linwood E. Orange Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Hamlet s Mad Soliloquy Linwood E. Orange To the two major groups into which nearly all Hamlet critics inevitably fall, the to be soliloquy is of crucial importance.1 The Romantic critics and the enormous number of late...

... in turn help clarify Zoo 's understanding of zoophilia. In detailed readings of texts by J. M. Coetzee ( Disgrace ), William Faulkner ( The Hamlet ), Wallace Stevens (“Sunday Morning”), and Elizabeth Bishop (“The Armadillo”), the essay finds in them a destitution of the self that—as psychological depth...

...Bert O. States Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Horatio Our Man in Elsinore: An Essay on Dramatic Logic Bert 0. States "For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee?" Hamlet The passion s slave speech comes...

..., which is (also) why friend­ ship is beautiful. Let me now call again on my star witness, Shakespeare the Shake­ speare not of Julius Caesar but of Hamlet. Although Hamlet can likewise be read as a drama of friendship, loyalty, and betrayal, loyalty and be­ trayal as ethical/moral concepts have no direct...

... has profited from and added to various observations made by previous Christian interpreters of these plays. In other chapters, however, such as those on Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, and Prince Hal of the Henry plays, his analysis becomes warped by a loose impressionism, and those on Midsummer...

.... PHIALAS An Approach to Hamlet. By L. C. Knights. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1961. Pp. 91. $2.75. L. C. Knights s book on Hamlet consists of four lectures delivered at the summer school at Stratford-on-Avon in 1960. In the first he treats of several other plays that Shakespeare wrote in the years...

... decides the right to decide. For Schmitt, any politics outside this realm is rejected as liberalism, political relativism, or 13 aestheticism. Fear of representation and its political implication can be seen well in Schmitt’s essay Hamlet oder Hekuba from 1956. Criticizing Benjamin...

..., and certainly contrast with the earlier and contemporary realism of Irving and of Tree; his Prefaces, which pre­ sumably supply the theory that underlies these productions, should thus be invaluable. The first volume treats of Hamlet at great length and, more briefly, of Tear, The Merchant of Venice, Antony...

... Copyright © 1912 by Duke University Press 1912 Notes and News In The Hamlet Problem and Its Solution by Mr. Emerson Venable (Stewart, Kidd and Co., Cincinnati), another attempt has been made to pluck out the heart of Hamlet s mystery. Mr. Venable selects five representative theories...

... drama, Remorse, much in the same way strongly remin­ iscent of Hamlet s familiar counterfeit presentment speech. I would call up before thine eyes the image Of my betrothed Alvar . . . his kingly forehead, . . . his commanding eye. . . . Place, place beside him Ordonio s dark perturbed countenance...

... in the final chapters to Hamlet and Macbeth, the author begins with the premise that Prince Hamlet is God s agent operating through the ghost s mandate to punish Claudius for his crime. Hamlet s mission is actually twofold: not only to punish Claudius, but to purge Denmark of all those who have served...