What Happens in Hamlet by J. Dover Wilson

What Happens in Hamlet by J. Dover Wilson

Author:J. Dover Wilson [Wilson, J. Dover]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Drama, Literary Criticism, European, English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh, Shakespeare, Shakespeare; William, Princes, Hamlet (Legendary character)
ISBN: 9780521091091
Google: CePVefwmN98C
Amazon: 0521091098
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1951-12-31T05:00:00+00:00


succession in Denmark" as he talks with Rosencrantz later. He wishes the court then to draw the deductions which, as we have seen, they did draw. In others words, he uses the play to threaten his uncle in a fashion which no one who sees it can mistake. It is a sudden dénouement, sudden like all Hamlet's actions, like his assumption of the "antic disposition" or his decision to have the Gonzago-play itself; and I think Shakespeare intended us to consider it unpremeditated. That is to say, Hamlet does not deliberately plan the identification before the interlude begins; it comes to him, as a stroke of genius, on the spur of the moment, when Lucianus enters. 1 But it is

The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,



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