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  2. List of fictional antiheroes - Wikipedia

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    This article may contain excessive or irrelevant examples. ... Prince Hamlet: Hamlet: 1599–1602 [7] Othello: ... Berserk of Gluttony [290] Rachel "Ray" Gardner ...

  3. Objective correlative - Wikipedia

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    Helping define the objective correlative, Eliot's essay "Hamlet and His Problems", [1] republished in his book The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism discusses his view of Shakespeare's incomplete development of Hamlet's emotions in the play Hamlet. Eliot uses Lady Macbeth's state of mind as an example of the successful objective ...

  4. The lady doth protest too much, methinks - Wikipedia

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    The Queen in "Hamlet" by Edwin Austin Abbey "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" is a line from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare.It is spoken by Queen Gertrude in response to the insincere overacting of a character in the play within a play created by Prince Hamlet to elicit evidence of his uncle's guilt in the murder of his father, the King of Denmark.

  5. Polonius - Wikipedia

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    Polonius" is Latin for "Polish" or "a/the Polish man." The English translation of the book refers to its author as a statesman of the "polonian empyre". In the first quarto of Hamlet, Polonius is named "Corambis". It has been suggested that this derives from "crambe" or "crambo", derived from a Latin phrase meaning "reheated cabbage", implying ...

  6. Critical approaches to Hamlet - Wikipedia

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    David P. Gontar in his book Hamlet Made Simple proposes that Hamlet's delay is best explained by conceiving of Prince Hamlet as the son of Claudius, not Hamlet the Dane. Noting that Hamlet is suicidal in the first soliloquy well before he meets the Ghost, Gontar reasons that his depression is a result of having been passed over for the Danish ...

  7. 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.

  8. King Claudius - Wikipedia

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    King Claudius is a fictional character and the main antagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. He is the brother to King Hamlet, second husband to Gertrude and uncle and later stepfather to Prince Hamlet. He obtained the throne of Denmark by murdering his brother with poison and then marrying the late king's widow.

  9. Literary influence of Hamlet - Wikipedia

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    The book has a focus on Ophelia's role, and how the sexism from Shakespeare's era translates to sexism in modern society for young women. Saving Hamlet was published by Disney Hyperion on November 1, 2016. Also in 2016, Ian McEwan's novel Nutshell was published, which retells Hamlet from the point of view of an unborn child.