Hamlet

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'Hamlet and the Odour of Mortality'Richard Altick, 1954.

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'The evil residing in the soul of one man cannot be containedthere - insidiously, irresistibly, it spreads to the whole ofsociety just as the reek of putrid flesh bears infection tothose who breathe it.'

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'The Comedy of Hamlet'Manfred Draudt, 2002.

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'The clown brings about a radical change in Hamlet'sperspective, from metaphysical concerns to themacabre reality of digging a grave (...) Of corpsesrotting in the earth.'

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'The Genre of Shakespeare's Plays',Susan Snyder, 2001.

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In tragedy, 'the causal chain unwinds inexorablytowards destruction, cutting off alternative possibilitiesof escape or new beginnings.'

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'O...'

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'O, my offence is rank, itsmells to heaven!'

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'There ...'

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'There is something rotten in thestate of Denmark.'

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'Things ...'

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'Things rank and gross in nature(...) Possess it merely.'

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'Foul...'

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'Foul and most unnatural murder.'

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'The Tragedy Of Hamlet: ASystem of Genres'.Adir Oliveira, 2012.

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Senex, a stock character fromRoman comedy. A foolish, easilydeceived old man.

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'How...'

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'How absolutethe knave is!'

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'Where ...'

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'Where be hisquiddities now?'

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'If it be now ...'

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'If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come,it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come -the readiness is all.'

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'What is a Shakespearean Tragedy?'Tom McAtindon, 2002.

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To quote A.C Bradley, 'mandivided against himself.'

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'Othello, Hamlet and Aristotelean Tragedy'Leon Golden, 1984.

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Aristotelean tragedy shifts from Harmatia to Arete, from' detection of the hero's faults to admiration of his virtues'.

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Hamlet's Father

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Hyperion, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter.

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'Othello, Hamlet and Aristotelean Tragedy'Leon Golden, 1984.

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Arete in Hamlet is 'more a potential than anactual force giving momentum to theunfolding action of the play'

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'By ... '

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' By the image of my cause I seeThe portraiture of his.'

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'I do not know ... '

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'I do not know why yet I live to say this thingsto do, sith I have cause and will and strengthand means to do it.'

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Hamlet would rather ...

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Hamlet would rather 'bear those ills (he) has/Than fly to others (he) knows not of.'