TY - JOUR

T1 - Hamlet, a genre-bending revenge tragedy?

AU - Hiscock, Andrew

PY - 2024/4/24

Y1 - 2024/4/24

N2 - This article concentrates on an early, but strategic scene in Shakespeare’s celebrated tragedy in which the audience is introduced to the court world of Elsinore and to the protagonist himself. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which Shakespeare’s innovative text tests early modern expectations of revenge tragedy as well as incorporating those associated with rhetoric and pedagogy in the period. The article ends demonstrating the international political emphasis of this scene as well as the unexpected continuities in self-representation between the leading male figures onstage.

AB - This article concentrates on an early, but strategic scene in Shakespeare’s celebrated tragedy in which the audience is introduced to the court world of Elsinore and to the protagonist himself. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which Shakespeare’s innovative text tests early modern expectations of revenge tragedy as well as incorporating those associated with rhetoric and pedagogy in the period. The article ends demonstrating the international political emphasis of this scene as well as the unexpected continuities in self-representation between the leading male figures onstage.

KW - Hamlet

KW - William Shakespeare

KW - revenge tragedy

KW - rhetoric

KW - royal court

U2 - 10.4000/11njd

DO - 10.4000/11njd

M3 - Article

VL - 13

JO - Arrêt sur scène / Scene Focus

JF - Arrêt sur scène / Scene Focus

SN - 2268-977X

M1 - 2

ER -