ENGL1800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Modern Language Quarterly, Metatheatre, Grazia
Week 3 ENG Lecture – Hamlet
Review:
• Subjectivity - self-consciousness about identity
• Greenblatt – self-fashioning
• Literature
• Autonomous individuality as a new concept (a person who is not tethers by obligations of
religio/faily a thikig of eig i the orld
• Inwardness (outward side sometime corresponds on true self)
• Theatre iested i iestigatig this e iardess sujetiity ad the deads of
family/ religion)
• Margreta De Grazia, Halet Before Its Tie, 6: Deeer Moder Laguage
Quarterly
• Hamlet thinks about thinking – the Wester hero of osiousess – however just an
allusion – clash between individual and the larger social form
Shakespeare: 1564-1616, playwright/ actor (played his own role eg ghost), shareholder in the
Chaerlais Me
Hamlet: The Tragicall Hiftorie of Hamlet; Prince of Denmark
• Q1 (1603 – shorter
• Q2 (1604/05) – longer
• Hamlet was a prince, belonged to the public sphere
• Cosistet ith Aristotles theory of tragedy – noble man to makes a mistake and falls
• Brings the state into danger as well as the individual
• Upper class, white male – model not available for everyone to sustain, eg a woman
(Ophelia/ Gertrude/ King (second son)
Early Modern Theatre:
• To be an actor is a form of selfhood new to men
• Inspire to be a professional author
• Shakespeare reflecting on what it means to be an author/ writer
• Was designed to make you believe
• Meta -Theatre (theatre about theatre)
• Theatre in the round (groundlings stood next to the stage)
• Very little scenery
• Clothing of the Elizabethans (did not use historical costumes)
• Soliloquy – delivers thoughts, can be trusted, may lie but not to the audience, self-conscious
identity, meta-reflection on what it means to be a person, the outward show and the inward
truth
• Metatheatre -
• Inwardness -
• Film/ theatre finds it had to portray inwardness
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