Catch-22 and Hamlet : two sides of the same coin Comparing Joseph Heller’s antiwar Catch-22 (1961), a postmodern controversially absurd novel, and the acknowledged Renaissance play Hamlet (1602) seems enough of a farfetched idea. However
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Hamlet’s Catch-22
A Psychoanalytic Reading of Hamlet and Catch-22
Bahareh Azad and Pyeaam Abbasi
In Critical Survey
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 97–115 (19 total)
‘Hamlet through your legs’
Radical Rewritings of Shakespeare's Tragedy in Japan
Kaori Ashizu
look at Hamlet through your legs, and say, ‘look, what we were doing is wrong’. Otherwise the literature does not advance. 1 Amanohashidate is a beautiful sandbar, reputed to be one of Japan's three finest views. The name means ‘the bridge in
In Critical Survey
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 85–102 (18 total)
Alienating Hamlet
Precarious Work in Jenny Andreasson's Teatern
Per Sivefors
cultural élite, about gender, class and work, Teatern retells the failed effort of a young female director to stage a feminist production of Hamlet . The man who has taken over as director of the theatre – he is only referred to as ‘my new boss’, and
‘|Y]oung Hamlet’
Shakespeare for Swedish Children
Mette Hildeman Sjölin
Though Hamlet is a tragedy of murder and suicide and therefore may be thought an unlikely candidate to be a favourite among children, the play seems to have an undeniable appeal for the very young – or at least for those who wish to adapt
In Critical Survey
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 94–112 (19 total)
Västanå Teater's 1996 Hamlet
Anna Swärdh
and choreographed movement. Together with traditional formal elements, such as choruses and dumb shows, this results in a stylised expression. The same was true also of their 1996 Hamlet , which showed influence from Nordic as well as European and
Elli Tompuri's Female Hamlet, 1913
Nely Keinänen
In his preface to Women as Hamlet , Tony Howard comments that ‘The extraordinary thing was not that so many great actresses had played Hamlet but that most were comprehensively forgotten’. 1 While Elli Tompuri is known as one of the premier
Hamlet’s Displacement as a Recurrent Case in Cather’s A Lost Lady and Al Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land
Tareq Zuhair
literary critics who have adopted the Freudian definition of neurosis and analysed Hamlet’s psyche from this prism. Shakespeare introduced Hamlet as a repugnant neurotic character in the sixteenth century. Hamlet’s personality plays a crucial role in
‘We read Hamlet together’
Shakespearean Intertextuality in Edward Said's Out of Place
Bilal Hamamra and Sanaa Abusamra
's influential evocation of colonialism and resistance’ by rewriting or writing back to The Tempest . 2 While the relevance of Hamlet to a postcolonial scenario is not obvious, Hamlet is a tragedy that prefigures colonial and postcolonial experiences of
In Critical Survey
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 93–106 (14 total)
Beautified Q1 Hamlet
Douglas Bruster
Whatever its origins, moment or moments of composition, performance history or subsequent reception, Q1 Hamlet participated – perhaps even more consequentially than other imprints of 1603 – in the representation market of its time. 1 As a
Q1 Hamlet
Graham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey
We are delighted to publish this special issue of Critical Survey devoted to contemporary studies of the first published text of Shakespeare's Hamlet , the first quarto (Q1), and grateful to Guest Editor Terri Bourus for bringing together such
In Critical Survey
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Editorial Afterword
- Pages:
- 187–195 (9 total)