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Hamlet and Emotions

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Editors:
  1. Paul Megna

    1. ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

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  2. Bríd Phillips

    1. ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

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  3. R. S. White

    1. ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. ‘In a Dream of Passion’: Introducing Hamlet and Emotion

    • Bríd Phillips, Paul Megna
    Pages 1-14

  4. ‘I know not “seems”’ Expression and Sensation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Hamlet’s Tears

      • Dympna Callaghan
      Pages 135-159

    3. Hamlet’s ‘Spendthrift Sigh’: Emotional Breathing On and Off the Stage

      • Naya Tsentourou
      Pages 161-176

    4. ‘Eyes Without Feeling, Feeling Without Sight’: The Sense of Sight in Hamlet

      • Bríd Phillips
      Pages 177-198

  5. ‘this quintessence of dust’ Character

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. Horatio as Author: Storytelling and Stoic Tragedy in Hamlet

      • Jeffrey R. Wilson
      Pages 201-211

    3. ‘A King of Shreds and Patches’: Claudius, Clothes, Feelings

      • Lisa Hopkins
      Pages 213-227

    4. ‘Something After’?: Hamlet and Dread

      • Bradley J. Irish
      Pages 229-249
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About this book

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. Its component chapters are not unified by a single methodological approach. Some deal with a single emotion in Hamlet, while others analyse the emotional trajectory of a single character, and still others focus on a given emotional expression (e.g., sighing or crying). Some bring modern methodologies for studying emotion to bear on Hamlet, others explore how Hamlet anticipates modern discourses on emotion, and still others ask how Hamlet itself can complicate and contribute to our current understanding of emotion.



Reviews

“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

  • ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

    Paul Megna, Bríd Phillips, R. S. White

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

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