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	Hamlet - LoveToKnow 1911
		The chief authority for the legend of Hamlet is Saxo Grammaticus, who devotes to it parts of the third and fourth books of his Historia Danica, written at the beginning of the 13th century.
		Harald and Halfdan escape after their father's death by being brought up, with dogs' names, in a hollow oak, and subsequently by feigned madness; and in the case of the other brothers there are traces of a similar motive, since the boys are called by dogs' names.
		Hermuthruda's cruelty to her wooers is common in northern and German mythology, and close parallels are afforded by Thyrdo, the terrible bride of Offa I., who figures in Beowulf, and by Brunhilda in the Nibelungenlied.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Hamlet (1664 words)

	Legends - Shakespeare's Stories - Hamlet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hamlet as hypertext, at MIT, and as text at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
		The Enfolded Hamlet, a searchable color-coded variorum Hamlet, by Bernice W. Kliman.
		The Tale of "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark," from Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare.
	www.legends.duelingmodems.com /shakespeare/hamlet.html (490 words)

	Hamlet's Transformation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thus Hamlet is identified with Copernicanism and its corollary, the Infinite Universe, and thus opposes Claudian and Ptolemaic geocentricism.
		When Hamlet refers to his "inky cloak" and "suits of solemn fl" (1.2.77, 78) he is talking both about the weeds of mourning and the canopy of the night sky.
		Hamlet calls his father's spirit an "old mole" because Hamlet is the personification of Thomas Digges and the Ghost is a "digger" too, as of course he should be if he is Hamlet's (i.e.
	shakespearedigges.org /er.html (6018 words)

	Legend - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Legend is [[distinguished from the genre of chronicle]] by the fact that legends apply structures that reveal a moral definition to events, providing meaning that lifts them above the repetitions and constraints of average human lives and giving them a universality that makes them worth repeating through many generations.
		When a legend that is rooted in a kernel of truth is so strongly affected by an ideal that it conforms to expected literary conventions of behavior, in certain cases it turns into a Romance.
		Legend may be interpreted for its ontological consequences and be treated as myth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Legend (1128 words)

	bhamletsummary
		Hamlet, the physician and anthropologist, whose training is in the sense of the Dane Severinus and in the sense of Bacon's natural science, is the prince of this Den-marke
		The two essays Of Death constitute an enlargement of the ideas conveyed by the two Hamlet monologues, and all this is made still more clear in so far as the contemplation of the shortening of life is concerned by Bacon's reflections with regard to the prolongation thereof.
		Horwendile is slain by his brother with a sword during a feast, whereas the old Hamlet is murdered secretly and with poison in his orchard.
	www.sirbacon.org /bhamletsummary.htm (1017 words)

	Enjoying "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare
		Hamlet refers (V.ii) to "the election", i.e., the choosing of a new king by a vote of a small number of warlords (as in Macbeth).
		Hamlet replies, "O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams." The friends continue to play on the idea that Hamlet's ambitious are being thwarted, sharing some contemporary platitudes about the vanity of earthly ambitions.
		Hamlet tells the queen not to dismiss what he has said about her as the result of madness, and says how ironic it is that virtue (his blunt talk to his mother) has to ask pardon for its bad manners.
	www.pathguy.com /hamlet.htm (18098 words)

	The Hindu : The 'Mona Lisa' of literature
		Hamlet (the man) is dominated by an emotion which is inexpressible, because it is in excess of the facts as they appear".
		The relentless energy with which "Hamlet" criticism is carried on has resulted in a substantial body of critical writing on Hamlet, the prince and/or the play.
		Irrespective of scholarly interpretations, reading "Hamlet" is a rewarding experience in itself in terms of its poetry and emotional range and depth.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/08/05/stories/1305067n.htm (1635 words)

	Cosmology in Hamlet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Shakespeare's Hamlet is taken from a Danish legend, due to Saxo Grammaticus (1150-1216).
		Hamlet is "Amlethus" (the name means "simpleton") and Saxo's version is rather uncouth compared with Shakepeare's.
		By looking at all of these legends as different versions of the same story, it is possible to pick out more of the underlying myth, and to find its cosmological significance.
	www.physics.sfsu.edu /~lea/courses/nexa/hamlet.htm (471 words)

	Hamlet Guitar Tabs and Chords
		Hamlet may be the most frequently produced work in almost every western country, and it is considered a crucial test for mature actors.
		Hamlet's " To be, or not to be" soliloquy (Act Three, Scene One), the most popular passage in the play, is so well known that it has become a stumbling-block for many modern actors.
		Hamlet is one of the world's most famous literary works, and has been translated into every major living language.
	www.guitarmasta.net /h/hamlet (280 words)

	"Hamlet" soars over season of excellent plays
		Hamlet (in a stunning performance by Festival favorite Brian Vaughn) learns his father’s murderer is none other than his uncle, Claudius (Bill Christ), his father’s brother and now king of Denmark, and that Claudius has hurriedly married Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude (Leslie Brott).
		Returning to Denmark in secret, Hamlet learns that Ophelia, distraught at her father’s death and Hamlet’s banishment, has drowned, and calls on a troupe of itinerate actors to tell the story of his father’s death on stage before the king and queen.
		Laertes manages to wound Hamlet, but is then stabbed with the poisoned foile, Gertrude drinks the wrong cup of wine and is poisoned, and Hamlet barely gets to take his revenge on Claudius before he dies himself.
	www.icatholic.org /indstory/2006/indexstory200626p07.html (591 words)

	HAMLET - Online Information article about HAMLET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		legend of Hamlet is Saxo Grammaticus, who devotes to it parts of the third and See also:
		Dublin in 888, the relations between the tales of Havelok and Hamlet are readily explicable, since nothing was more likely than that the exploits of father and son should be confounded (see HAVELOK).
		device (which occurs in Havelok and Hamlet) of bluffing the enemy by tying the wounded to stakes to represent active soldiers was used.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GUI_HAN/HAMLET.html (2265 words)

	Theater Pro
		Simon Russell Beale’s Hamlet at the National Theatre captures the character’s keen intelligence and biting satire, as well as his versatility, going in a flash from the emotional first soliloquy (“O that this too, too solid flesh”) to the conviviality of greeting and joking with Horatio, to concealed agitation when he hears of the ghost.
		Hamlet’s missing soliloquy is one that adds another dimension to his complex character, as he realizes that war is folly — they are fighting “even for an eggshell,” a tiny parcel of land.
		He has the nobility as well as the youth and the agility the text calls for, and he can deliver the language, with the right rhythm, inflection, and music, so that his speeches are not only clear but also stunning in their effect.
	www.theaterpro.com /pl_shake3.html (1402 words)

	LitWeb
		As Hamlet, Sarah Bernhardt had several challenges to overcome even before the first rehearsal: English was not her language (she was French and performed the play in a French prose translation); she was a woman (although neither the first nor the last female Hamlet), and she was fifty-four years old.
		The greatest French actress of her era and a famous eccentric, Bernhardt was seen breakfasting publicly in Paris in her Hamlet costume; she kept a skeleton in her apartment (to remind herself of mortality); and she both learned her parts and slept nightly in the coffin in which she was later buried.
		During the "Mousetrap," Bernhardt's Hamlet used Ophelia's hair as a screen through which to observe the King's reaction, and when the King called for light she thrust a torch in his face (a gesture later adopted by Olivier in his film version).
	www.wwnorton.com /litweb/workshops/drama/shakespeare11.asp (1616 words)

	Shakespeare's Sources for Hamlet
		Hamlet is based on a Norse legend composed by Saxo Grammaticus in Latin around 1200 AD.
		The sixteen books that comprise Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum, or History of the Danes, tell of the rise and fall of the great rulers of Denmark, and the tale of Amleth, Saxo's Hamlet, is recounted in books three and four.
		Generally, it is accepted that Shakespeare used the earlier play based on this Norse legend by Thomas Kyd, called the Ur-Hamlet.
	www.shakespeare-online.com /sources/hamletsources.html (268 words)

	Hamlet Summary & Essays - William Shakespeare
		In the words of Ernest Johnson, “the dilemma of Hamlet the Prince and Man” is “to disentangle himself from the temptation to wreak justice for the wrong reasons and in evil passion, and to do what he must do at last for the pure sake of justice….
		From that dilemma of wrong feelings and right actions, he ultimately emerges, solving the problem by attaining a proper state of mind.” Hamlet endures as the object of universal identification because his central moral dilemma transcends the Elizabethan period, making him a man for all ages.
		Marcellus, Horatio, Hamlet, and the Ghost by Henry Fuseli
	www.enotes.com /hamlet (584 words)

	Sources of Hamlet
		While Hamlet may be regarded as a sort of Northern counterpart of the Roman Brutus, another Danish prince, whom the elder Grundtvig aptly styled “Hamlet’s mythical half-brother,” recalls the most striking element in the legend of Servius Tullius.
		Hamlet, on the other hand, schemes of revenge; and his sayings are in character with his assumed madness.
		But the Hamlet of Saxo’s Fourth Book, who journeys to Scotland to woo the fierce virago Hermutrude, whose cruel arrogance made her always loathe her wooers, may be identified with the son-in-law of Constantine of Scotland.
	phoenixandturtle.net /excerptmill/Gollancz.htm (8321 words)

	Soviet Psychology: Chapter 8:THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK
		Stoll, for instance, bluntly asserts that in Hamlet Shakespeare is more interested in the situation than in the hero’s character, that Hamlet should be viewed as a tragedy of intrigue in which the decisive role is la ed b the sequence of events and not by the disclosure o the hero’s character.
		The formula of the story is that Hamlet kills the king to avenge the death of his father; that of the plot is that he does not kill the king.
		Hamlet points out immedi ately that the tears are only an act, that the actor weeps for Hecuba (about whom he does not care), but that all the emotion and passion are fictitious.
	www.marxists.org /archive/vygotsky/works/1925/art8.htm (12410 words)

	Yale Review of Books: Gertrude and Claudius
		Generations of students of Hamlet have tended to view Claudius as a cold and malignant throne-snatcher and Gertrude as a frail specimen of womanhood, both itching to get their paws on Hamlet, the virtuous and sensitive philosopher-prince.
		Prince Hamlet, always offstage in this view of Elsinore, is portrayed as detached and sulky almost from birth, characterized by “a certain cruelty, disguised as foolery” that merely grows as he ages.
		The text is peppered with allusions to Hamlet: parallel but distorted scenarios crop up frequently, and phrases and single words from the play are altered and paraphrased, evoked and teased, throughout the novel.
	www.yale.edu /yrb/summer00/review3.htm (811 words)

	Hamlet (legend) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hermuthruda's cruelty to her wooers is common in northern and German mythology, and close parallels are afforded by Þryð, the terrible bride of Offa, who figures in Beowulf, by Brunhilda in the Nibelungenlied, and by Sigrid the Haughty in the Heimskringla.
		Sigtrygg was the father of that Olaf Cuaran (also known as Anlaf) who was the prototype of the English Havelok, but nowhere else does he receive the nickname of Amhlaide.
		If Amhlaide may really be identified with Sigtrygg, who first went to Dublin in 888, the relations between the tales of Havelok and Hamlet are readily explicable, since nothing was more likely than that the exploits of father and son should be confounded.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hamlet_(legend) (1708 words)

	New Findings on Hamlet
		The legend of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, (had he lived he would have become Denmark's King Hamlet II) always held that Hamlet was killed during a grudge-duel with courtier Laertes (son of Curmudgeon Laureate, Pelonius and brother of Hamlet's dumped girlfriend, Ophelia).
		We therefore believe that Hamlet merely swooned during his duel with Laertes, either from gross melancholic indigestion or from general ennui.
		Horatio, a close friend of Hamlet's, is elated by this miraculous escape from death.
	www.haplessdilettante.com /hamlet.html (1025 words)

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		In fact, Hamlet assures his mother that he is "not in madness, / But mad in craft" (3.4.188-9), i.e.
		Thus there has been a complete transformation of world view, and neither the planetary system nor the starry firmament "resembles that it was." In short, "Hamlet's Transformation" is a two-step operation that changes Ptolemaic geocentricism into the Infinite Universe.
		Hamlet offers words which are too light for the "bore" of the matter (4.6.22).
	www.astro.psu.edu /users/usher/er.html (6021 words)

	Style Weekly : Richmond's alternative for news, arts, culture and opinion
		In this book, the author extracts portions from three renditions of the Hamlet legend to project a foundation for Gertrude and Claudius to commit their inevitable act of impropriety.
		Part One of the novel is based on the Danish legend of Hamlet entitled the “Historica Danica.” In this version, Gertrude is Gerutha, a headstrong, untamed, king’s daughter, who reluctantly submits to her father’s choice of a husband, Horendil, a warrior who manifests outward savagery but possesses inward virtue.
		In the course of the three parts, the reader will witness the birth of Prince Hamlet, his tendency toward religious skepticism and rejection of the piety associated with the throne, the wooing of Gertrude by Claudius and the resulting tragedy.
	www.styleweekly.com /article.asp?idarticle=1532 (718 words)

	Ernest Jones' Explanation of Hamlet's Mystery -- p. 109 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		brother, as in the Hamlet legend, subserves the functions of
		Pharaoh's daughter in the Moses legend, or of many of the fig-
		Hamlet's jealousy of Laertes' interference in connection with
	www.clicknotes.com /hamlet/jones/jones109.html (427 words)

	Ernest Jones' Explanation of Hamlet's Mystery -- p. 108 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hamlet's resentment towards him is thus doubly con-
		legend is also evidenced by the incest between Claudius and
		represent a brother of Hamlet, and Ophelia a sister.
	www.clicknotes.com /hamlet/jones/jones108.html (433 words)

	2001 Pulitzer Prizes-CRITICISM, Works
		We tend to think of Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet as the first introvert of modern tragedy, with his theatrical domain - along with Wittenberg and rotten Denmark - as that of the first great Renaissance drama.
		With the ghost of Hamlet's dead father hovering over his son's conscience, we watch a tale unfold whose central action has already taken place: Claudius, King of Denmark and stepfather to the prince, has poisoned Hamlet's father and absconded with queen and crown.
		Prince Hamlet himself is off in Wittenberg, naturally, reading philosophy in the place where Martin Luther nailed his "Theses" to the door.
	www.pulitzer.org /year/2001/criticism/works/caldwell020600.html (944 words)

	Lamson Library » Blog Archive » Gesta Danorum. Liber 3, VI-4, II. English
		tags: hamlet (legendary character), hamlet (legendary character) — sources, hansen, william f., 1941-, saxo, grammaticus, d.
		The Sources Of Hamlet; With An Essay On The Legend
		This entry was posted on Friday, July 9th, 1993 at 12:00 am and is filed under Uncategorized.
	www.plymouth.edu /library/opac/record/1224091 (285 words)

	Plot Summary for Hamlet (1921) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The most important of these changes sees Hamlet made into a female character - a princess forced to masquerade as a man by her scheming mother; from this follows Hamlet's secret passion for Horatio and rivalry with Ophelia for his love.
		Queen Gertrude is here presented as conspiring in her first husband's murder, and the old king's ghost does not appear - young Hamlet merely hears a voice from the tomb and (apparently) dreams of him.
		In addition, Hamlet now kills Claudius (in a fire) immediately upon returning from Norway with an army led by old school- friend Fortinbras, and it falls to Gertrude to engineer Hamlet's death in the fencing match as well as kill herself by accidentally drinking the poisoned wine.
	us.imdb.com /Plot?0012249 (261 words)

	Dogg's Hamlet: The Mad Goth's Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In one scene of the play, the letters in "Dogg's Hamlet" are re-arranged to spell nonsensical things.
		HAMLET: Be it golem, ghast, devil, if it assume my noble father's person, I'll speak to it.
		HAMLET: Get thee to a nunnery; the god gals might welcome you.
	robotics.caltech.edu /~mason/madgothleg.html (129 words)

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