Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Сумаро́ков; 25 November 1717 [O.S. 14 November], Moscow – 12 October 1777 [O.S. 1 October]) was a Russian poet and playwright who single-handedly created classical theatre in Russia, thus assisting Mikhail Lomonosov to inaugurate the reign of classicism in Russian literature.
The story of the prince who plots revenge on his uncle (the current king) for killing his father (the former king) is an old one. Many of the story elements—the prince feigning madness and his testing by a young woman, the prince talking to his mother and her hasty marriage to the usurper, the prince killing a hidden spy and substituting the execution of two retainers for his own—are found ...
Died. 1763. (1763-00-00) (aged 33–34) Moscow, Russian Empire. Occupation. Actor. Volkov on a 1956 stamp. Fyodor Grigorievich Volkov (Russian: Фёдор Григорьевич Волков) (20 February [O.S. 9 February] 1729 in Kostroma – 15 April [O.S. 4 April] 1763 in Moscow) was a Russian actor and founder of the first permanent Russian ...
Hamlet. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to Hamlet (/ ˈhæmlɪt /), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's ...
In 1748, Alexander Sumarokov wrote a Russian adaptation focusing on Prince Hamlet as the embodiment of an opposition to Claudius' tyranny: a theme that would pervade Eastern China adaptations into the twentieth century. [15]
Critical approaches to Hamlet. Critical approaches to. Hamlet. Hamlet and Ophelia, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. From its premiere at the turn of the 17th century, Hamlet has remained Shakespeare's best-known, most-imitated, and most-analyzed play. The character of Hamlet played a critical role in Sigmund Freud 's explanation of the Oedipus ...
Laetitia Pilkington – Memoirs. Samuel Richardson (anonymously) – Clarissa, vols. ii – vii (earlier vols. dated 1748 actually published 1747) Thomas Sheridan – The Simile. Tobias Smollett. The Adventures of Roderick Random [8] English translation of The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane by Alain-René Le Sage.
Hamlet and His Problems is an essay written by T. S. Eliot in 1919 that offers a critical reading of Hamlet. The essay first appeared in Eliot's The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism in 1920. It was later reprinted by Faber & Faber in 1932 in Selected Essays, 1917-1932. [1] Eliot's critique gained attention partly due to his claim ...