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Oxford Literature Companions: Hamlet
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Book Description
Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role, genre, context, language, themes, structure, performance and critical views, whilst also providing a range of varied and in-depth activities to deepen understanding and encourage close work wtih the text. Each book
also includes a comprehensive Skills and Practice section, which provides detailed advice on assessment and a bank of exam-style questions and annotated sample student answers. This guide covers Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
Table of Contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Plot and Structure
- Plot
- Structure
- Context
- Biography of William Shakespeare
- Revenge in Shakespeare’s time
- Ghosts, Heaven and Hell
- Suicide
- Women and gender
- Friendships between men
- Shakespeare’s sources
- Genre
- Tragedy
- Revenge tragedy
- History and tragedy
- Comic elements
- Characterization and Roles
- Main characters
- Minor characters
- Language
- Soliloquies
- Repetition
- Imagery
- Symbolism
- Blank verse
- Prose
- Themes
- Seeming and the nature of reality
- Theatre and acting
- Fathers
- Death
- Revenge
- Madness
- Women’s frailties
- Masculinity and heroism
- Politics
- Performance
- Hamlet in Shakespeare’s time: the Globe Theatre
- Hamlet in the 18th and 19th centuries
- Hamlet in the 20th and 21st centuries
- Ophelia in performance
- From text to performance
- Critical Views
- Hamlet and the question of delay
- Queer readings
- Feminist criticism
- Historical criticism
- Interiority
- The text(s) of Hamlet
- Political criticism
- Skills and Practice
- Exam skills
- Sample questions
- Sample answers
- Glossary and Further reading
- Back Cover
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