The historical and mythical sources of Shakespeare's Hamlet


Essay, 2003

5 Seiten


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In this essay I will discuss the historical and mythical sources of Shakespeare's Hamlet, and briefly their relationship among one another. Although it is difficult to separate these into clearly distinguishable and exclusive categories, and perhaps even misleading to do so, I will, for getting the main facts in, try to bring them into a logical context. It will be seen that they will overlap.
When we talk about Shakespeare's sources for Hamlet, we are talking about Lucius Junius Brutus, who tries to save himself by feigning stupidity to his uncle, the king. About Nero, the insane murderer of his mother, of whom Uncle Claudius feigns in his youth stupidity as well for escaping being murdered and finally about Orestas, who becomes mad after his mother was murdered.

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Titel
The historical and mythical sources of Shakespeare's Hamlet
Hochschule
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg  (Institut für Anglistik)
Autor
Jahr
2003
Seiten
5
Katalognummer
V89398
ISBN (eBook)
9783638028790
Dateigröße
338 KB
Sprache
Englisch
Schlagworte
Shakespeare, Hamlet
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Christopher Hohlbaum (Autor:in), 2003, The historical and mythical sources of Shakespeare's Hamlet, München, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/89398

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