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CONFERENCE: Hamlet and Emotions: Then and Now

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Today's date is Friday, March 29, 2024
Hamlet and Emotions: Then and Now : An ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Conference Other events...
Ian McEwan’s recent novel Nutshell (2016), in which Hamlet is an unborn foetus, is only the latest in a line of appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays stretching back to 1600. Hamlet itself stretches beyond the seventeenth century, drawing on sources that date back to twelfth-century Denmark, and referring within itself to relics of older drama that Shakespeare may have seen as a boy in Stratford. Hamlet looks both backwards and forwards in time. The play also covers a remarkable range of emotional states, including anger, love, hatred, grief, melancholy and despair. Indeed, Hamlet stages a plethora of emotional practices: a funeral and a marriage, a vindictive ghost in purgatory, a young woman whose mental equilibrium has been dislodged by the murder of her father by her own erstwhile lover, an inscrutable monarch under suspicion of murder, a couple of mordantly cheerful gravediggers, and a young prince back from university and grieving for his deceased father. This symposium invites new readings of the play, focusing on its emotional life in the widest sense.

This is a free event, but registration is required. See http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/hamlet-and-emotions-then-and-now/
Speaker(s) Plenary speakers: Kevin Curran (University of Lausanne), Richard Meek (University of Hull), Kathryn Prince (University of Ottawa), Naya Tsentourou (University of Exeter)
Location St Catherine's College, UWA
Contact Pam Bond <[email protected]> : 64883858
URL http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/hamlet-and-emotions-then-and-now/
Start Mon, 10 Apr 2017 09:00
End Tue, 11 Apr 2017 17:00
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Submitted by Joanne McEwan <[email protected]>
Last Updated Wed, 15 Mar 2017 08:10
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