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  2. In medias res - Wikipedia

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    For example, Hamlet begins after the death of Hamlet's father, which is later discovered to have been a murder. Characters make reference to King Hamlet's death without the plot's first establishment of this fact. Since the play is about Hamlet and the revenge more so than the motivation, Shakespeare uses in medias res to bypass superfluous ...

  3. File:Ivan Cankar - Hamlet.pdf - Wikipedia

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  4. Bad quarto - Wikipedia

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    Hamlet Q1 (1603), the first published text of Hamlet, is often described as a "bad quarto".. A bad quarto, in Shakespearean scholarship, is a quarto-sized printed edition of one of Shakespeare's plays that is considered to be unauthorised, and is theorised to have been pirated from a theatrical performance without permission by someone in the audience writing it down as it was spoken or ...

  5. Hamlet and Oedipus - Wikipedia

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    Hamlet and Oedipus is a study of William Shakespeare's Hamlet in which the title character's inexplicable behaviours are subjected to investigation along psychoanalytic lines. [ 1 ]

  6. Hamlet - Wikipedia

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    The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (/ ˈ h æ m l ɪ t /), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play.

  7. Backstory - Wikipedia

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    A backstory, background story, background, or legend is a set of events invented for a plot, preceding and leading up to that plot.In acting, it is the history of the character before the drama begins, and is created during the actor's preparation.

  8. Hamlet and His Problems - Wikipedia

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    The Hamlet of the supposed earlier play also uses his perceived madness as a guise to escape suspicion. Eliot believes that in Shakespeare's version, however, Hamlet is driven by a motive greater than revenge, his delay in exacting revenge is left unexplained, and that Hamlet's madness is meant to arouse the king's suspicion rather than avoid it.

  9. Critical approaches to Hamlet - Wikipedia

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    Philosophical ideas in Hamlet are similar to those of Michel de Montaigne, a contemporary to Shakespeare. Hamlet is often perceived as a philosophical character. Some of the most prominent philosophical theories in Hamlet are relativism, existentialism, and scepticism. Hamlet expresses a relativist idea when he says to Rosencrantz: "there is ...