Politics and Genre in Hamlet
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Pakistan
- Date of Publication 30 November 2006
- ISBN 9780195474077
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages72 pages
- Size 208x141x12 mm
- Weight 216 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is a historicist study of Shakespeare's most famous and enigmatic play. It is concerned with identity, time and power in Hamlet and the question of aesthetic form in relation to all these. The Author takes a fresh look at a Renaissance hero who exists, oddly, on the margins of his play - and yet is condemned to be its hero. It frames the question that lies, implicitly, at the heart of Hamlet and in some strange way constitutes its tragedy:
what is a play if not playacting?
Long description:
Politics and Genre in "Hamlet" is a historicist study constituting a significant departure from the New Historicist or 'cultural' approach to Shakespeare. It examines the question of genre in relation to identity, time and power in the play against the backdrop of the Renaissance in Europe. It looks at identity as a typically Renaissance phenomenon: a theatrical construct alternating between the
Machiavellian and Castiglionesque. The 'new' political time is analyzed in the terms of an uneasy interval which, having arrived imperceptibly, somehow qualifies inescapably as history. Power, of which rhetoric is seen to perform a crucial function in Hamlet, is considered against a Foucauldian perspective of mobile power relations. State power on stage is, according to
this study, as much a mysterious ubiquity as an atopia. Pivotal to Politics and Genre in "Hamlet" is what is viewed here as the cause of Hamlet's 'delay'. This is taken as generic and phenomenological, hinging on an intrinsic divergence between the atelic and recessive neoplatonic protagonist and the covert Aristotelian teleologies of the court at Elsinore. The discussion also takes in the existential, Picoesque concept of freedom to
support the argument that Hamlet's is a genre in transition. One of the special achievements of Politics and Genre in "Hamlet" is that its focus on many of the classic issues of Shakespeare's play enables it to keep the dramatic process constantly in view.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Politics and Genre in "Hamlet"
Notes
Bibliography
