Hamlet and Emotions

ISBN-13: 9783030037949 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 347 str.

Paul Megna; Brid Phillips; R. S. White

Recenzje

"Megna, Phillips, and White's volume illuminates Shakespeare's play from a number of angles, offering a wealth of penetrating insights and rewarding both systematic and more intermittent readers." (Erin Sullivan, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73 (2), 2020)

Spis treści

1. ‘Prologue to the omen coming on’ - Robert White.- 2.‘in a dream of passion’: Introducing Hamlet and Emotion - Paul Megna and Bríd Phillips.- Part I: ‘Between who?’: Influences and Inter-Texts.- 3. Hamlet and Tragic Emotion - Indira Ghose.- 4.A Conjuration of Patrick: A Legacy of Doubt and Imagining in Hamlet - Michael D. Barbezat.- 5. Fear and Wonder: Shakespeare’s Ghost in the Fireside Tradition - Catherine Belsey.- 6. ‘For by the image of my cause, I see / The portraiture of his’: Hamlet and the Imitation of Emotion - Richard Meek.- 7. ‘Each subtlest passion, with her source and spring’: Hamlet, Sejanus and the Concealment of Emotion - Jane Rickard.- Part II: ‘I know not “seems”’: Expression and Sensation.- 8. Hamlet’s Tears - Dympna Callaghan.- 9. Hamlet’s ‘Spendthrift Sigh’: Emotional Breathing on and off the Stage - Naya Tsentourou.- 10. ‘Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight’: The Sense of Sight in Hamlet - Bríd Phillips.- Part III: ‘this quintessence of dust’: Character.- 11. Horatio as Author: Storytelling and Stoic Tragedy in Hamlet - Jeffrey R. Wilson.- 12. ‘A king of shreds and patches’: Claudius, Clothes, Feeling - Lisa Hopkins.- 13. ‘Something After?’: Hamlet and Dread - Bradley Irish.- Part IV: ‘Remember me’: Performance and Adaptation.- 14. Misremembering Hamlet at Elsinore- Kathryn Prince.- 15. ‘Speech falters speech flinches when horror lifts a fist to it’: Action, Emotion, and Inertia in Three Hamlet Variations - Stephen Chinna.- 16. Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Stoppard’s Guildenstern Leap between Un-Existentialist Anguish and Un-Absurdist Happiness - Paul Megna.- 17. Horatio: Loyal Friend of Hamlet and Nutshell - Robert White.

O autorze

Paul Megna is Honorary Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at The University of Western Australia.

 

Bríd Phillips is Honorary Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at The University of Western Australia, and Lecturer in Health Humanities, Health and Medical Sciences, at The University of Western Australia.

 

R. S. White is Winthrop Professor of English at The University of Western Australia, and a Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.