What’s in a Name?
May 11, 2006
by Hugh Trevor-Roper Réalités (English Edition), November 1962, pages 41-43 Of all the immortal geniuses of literature, none is personally so elusive as William Shakespeare.
May 11, 2006
An Unrecognized Theme in Hamlet: Lost Inheritance and Claudius’s Marriage to Gertrude, Part I
May 11, 2006
by J. Anthony Burton. The subject of inheritance is the principal idea behind several important scenes, including the nature of the disappointed “hopes” Hamlet includes, along with murder, incest, and attempted murder, in his list of justifications for killing Claudius
An Unrecognized Theme in Hamlet: Lost Inheritance and Claudius’s Marriage to Gertrude, Part II
May 11, 2006
by J. Anthony Burton Part II (published in the Shakespeare Newsletter of Claremont McKenna College, Volume 50, No. 4 Winter 2000–01; reprinted on the SOF
Laertes’s Rebellion as a Defense of His Inheritance: Further Aspects of Inheritance Law in Hamlet
May 11, 2006
by J. Anthony Burton. The theme of lost inheritance has a special but limited function within the larger framework of the play. It does not, of course, displace or even compete with the central theme of revenge or, more properly, justice. Inheritance works as a sort of unifying preoccupation
