revoulutionary, influential, knowlegable, role model, creative and poetic
The play within the play - the enactment by the players of "The Murder of Gonzago," with additions by Hamlet.
The tragic force in Hamlet, according to Gustav Freytag, is when Hamlet, during an interview with his mother, kills Polonius by mistake, thinking that he is killing the king. See Freytag's Technique of the Drama, translated by Elias J. MacEwan, page 191.
A narrative is more make believe than real
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Some writers have claimed that the dumb show is extremely significant because the story of the dumb show and the story of the "play within a play" are not the same story, but that one of them is a comment of current affairs in England ca. 1600. There is not a lot of evidence for such an analysis. The dumb show has also been pointed to as a reference to the style of drama exemplified by such plays as Gorboduc, which made free use of dumb shows to prefigure the action, and sometimes to move it forward. The stilted speech in the spoken drama adds to the feeling that Shakespeare is imitating and perhaps ridiculing this obsolete style of drama. Then again, the dumb show lengthens the time during which Claudius and Gertrude can realize that the play is about them, thus improving the dramatic possibilities while they slowly come to this realization, including ironic lines such as "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
The original purpose of drama was to tell a story and entertain audiences. Hamlet by William Shakespeare is considered one of all-time masterpieces of theater drama.
exiting good suspence & drama
Never. None of the characters in any of Shakespeare's plays appear to reflect any part of Shakespeare's attitudes or beliefs and if they do, it is impossible to tell. Even with Hamlet's "advice to the players" (the speech in 3,2 which starts "Speak the speech I pray you as I prounounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue . . .") we hear ideas about the dramatic art which sound reasonable and the kind of thing an accomplished actor might say. But, hold on! Hamlet has expressed in 2,2 a love of the kind of drama we find in "Aeneas' tale to Dido", a play which just about everyone hated, which was "caviar to the general". Hamlet's taste in drama is snobbish and academic, and apparently he likes long tedious classical recitations. Was this really Shakespeare's attitude to drama? We'd like to think not, but otherwise aren't we just cherry-picking which of Hamlet's statements about drama we agree with and then concluding that they must have been Shakespeare's exclusively on the basis that we agree with them?
Drama was how Shakespeare made a living.
The setting for Act 5 Scene 1 of Hamlet is a graveyard. This sorts with the theme of death which has been flowing through the play.
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In Hamlet and other plays, Shakespeare uses the soliloquy to explain the thoughts of his characters : their feelings, desires, and motivations. It is often used as a 'stream of consciousness', as the character examines aspects of his own psyche. Hamlet's famous monologue (in act III, scene 1) gives us his view of life and mortality, as he struggles with his decision on revenging his father's murder.
Natalie Lord Rice Clark has written: 'Hamlet on the Dial stage' -- subject(s): Authorship, Baconian theory, Hamlet (Legendary character) 'Bacon's drama-dial in Shakespeare' -- subject(s): Authorship, Baconian theory
In drama a soliloquy is a speech a character makes to his/herself. The speech consists of the character's own reflections and serves to give the audience a peek inside the character's head so that they might better understand the play or the character's motivations. Two of the most famous soliloquies in drama are found in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Richard III.
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