Theater as Metaphor in HamletHarvard University Press, 1967 - 51 pages |
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action actor analogy appears artifice audience becomes beginning body bring cause challenge character Claudius coaches command consider contrive court creates dead death define Denmark desire directing director discover disease dramatic dramatist Elizabethan encounter energy England expresses extends facts father figures final force Gertrude ghost gives grows guilt Hamlet Hamlet's play-acting hidden hiding Horatio imagination imitates inability inner kill kind king Laertes leads less look lover madness manipulate meaning meaningful meet metaphor METAPHOR IN HAMLET MICHIGAN mirror movement moves murder nature once Ophelia pattern personality play players plots Polonius pose position possibilities reality reasons reference reveal revenge ritual role Rosencrantz and Guildenstern says scene scorn secret seeks seems sense Shakespeare shape shield similar situation soldiers stage story structural suggest tells THEATER AS METAPHOR theatricality thematic things tragedy tries trying turn UNIVERSITY whole