Shakespeare's possible worlds / Cindy Chopoidalo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chopoidalo, Cindy, 1974-

Series:

Bibliothèque de littérature générale et comparée,.

Bibliothèque de littérature générale et comparée, 1262-2850

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Hamlet (Legendary character).

Hamlet.

Hamlet (Legendary character)--Sources.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations.

Genre:

Adaptations.

Physical Description:

232 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Paris : Honoré Champion éditeur, 2018.

Summary:

"As Shakespeare's best-known and most written-about text, indeed one of the world's most studied texts, Hamlet has inspired countless interpretations and adaptations by artists and writers the world over. At the same time, Hamlet is itself an adaptation of Danish folklore retold through Latin, French, and English translations. Using the possible/fictional-world theories of Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Lubomfr Dolesiel, Douglas Lanier, and others, this work examines Shakespeare's Hamlet as an adaptation of its historical and literary sources, alongside a representative sample of texts in English, French, and Spanish which use Hamlet as their source."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

1. Possible Worlds and Fictional Worlds

The Atomists

Descartes, Leibniz, and Early Fictional-World Theories

Kripke : Modal Logic and Naming

Lewis : Truth and Fiction, Counterpart Theory, and Modal Realism

Fictionality and Intertextuality

DoleZel and Lanier : Classifying Adaptations

2. Shakespeare as Adaptor : The Case of Hamlet

The Historical and Literary Backgrounds of the Play

Saxo Grammaticus's Historiae Danicae

François de Belleforest's Histoires Tragiques

The Revenge Tragedy, The Spanish Tragedy, and Hamlet

Hamlet and Shakespeare's Contemporary History

3. Translations and/as Adaptations

The Possible Worlds of Translation

Ducis and Moratfn : Early Translations

Gurik and Mayer : (Post)Modern Translations

4. Expansions : Hamlet Without the Prince

Hamlet Before the Prince : Claudius, Gertrude, and King Hamlet as Main Characters

He Has My Dying Voice : Horatio and Fortinbras as Main Characters

Revising Ophelia : Ophelia as a Main Character

Minor Characters in Hamlet, Major Characters in Adaptations

5. Hamlet in His Postmodern Guises

Transpositions of Hamlet

Hamlet and Humour

Hamlet, Thy Name is Woman : Gender and Hamlet

Adaptations

Hamlet and Possible-Worlds Fantasy

The Abstracts and Brief Chronicles of the Time : Hamlet Retold in Juvenile Fiction

6. Hamlet in Art : Visual and Literary Possibilities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9782745348760

2745348760

OCLC:

1066123323