The Hamlet Zone: Reworking Hamlet for European Cultures by Owen, Ruth J.

The Hamlet Zone: Reworking Hamlet for European Cultures (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443839747)

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Format: Hardcover
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The Hamlet Zone: Reworking Hamlet for European Cultures by Owen, Ruth J.

The Hamlet Zone: Reworking Hamlet for European Cultures

$67.95
The Hamlet Zone: Reworking Hamlet for European Cultures by Owen, Ruth J.

The Hamlet Zone: Reworking Hamlet for European Cultures

$67.95
Format: Hardcover
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Detached from Shakespeare's English, Hamlet has been rewritten numerous times in European languages, the various translations into any one language jostling with each other for dominance and spawning new Hamlets that depart decisively from Shakespeare as a source. This book focuses on the rich tradition of drawing from Hamlet in European cultures to produce new, independent works, which include Hamlet theatre, Hamlet ballet, Hamlet poetry, Hamlet fiction, Hamlet essays and Hamlet films. It examines how the myth of Hamlet has crossed back and forth over Europe's linguistic borders for four hundred years, repeatedly reinvigorated by being bent to specific geo-political and cultural locations. The enquiries in this book show how, in the process of translation, adaptation and reinventing, Hamlet has become the common cultural currency of Europe.

Author: Ruth J. Owen
ISBN-10: 1443839744
ISBN-13: 9781443839747
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2012
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.00d
By Ruth J. Owen
By Ruth J. Owen
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Ruth J. Owen is Senior Lecturer in German at Cardiff University in the UK. Her research interests focus on German-language poetry. She has published widely on the poetry of the German Democratic Republic, the German city in postwar poetry, poetry of the body, and the figure of Ophelia in German literature. She is the author of The Poet's Role: Lyric Responses to German Unification and co-ordinator of the Poetry Research Network.

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