Overview
- First volume to take a history of emotions approach to analysing Hamlet
- Features contributions from a wide range of well-known Shakespeare scholars
- Explores new readings of the play, focusing on many aspects of its emotional life in the widest sense
Part of the book series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies (PASHST)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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‘Between who?’ Influences and Inter-texts
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‘I know not “seems”’ Expression and Sensation
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‘this quintessence of dust’ Character
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‘Remember me’ Performance and Adaptation
Reviews
“This volume bears potent testimony, not only to the dense complexity of Hamlet’s emotional dynamics, but also to the enduring fascination that audiences, adaptors, and academics have with what may well be Shakespeare’s moodiest play. Its chapters explore emotion in Hamlet, as well as the myriad emotions surrounding Hamlet’s debts to the medieval past, its relationship to the cultural milieu in which it was produced, its celebrated performance history, and its profound impact beyond the early modern era.” (Scriptable, rtreview.org, Issue 121, April, 2024)
“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)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hamlet and Emotions
Editors: Paul Megna, Bríd Phillips, R. S. White
Series Title: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03795-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03794-9Published: 25 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03795-6Published: 01 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2731-3204
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3212
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 347
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Shakespeare, Emotion, Theatre History