- Docente: Keir Douglas Elam
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-LIN/10
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Music and Theatre Studies (cod. 8837)
Course contents
This course will discuss the development of the myth of Hamlet, from its Scandinavian origins, through the three Shakespeare texts of Hamlet, to later adaptations, rewritings and film versions. It will also enquire into the centrality of Shakespeare’s tragedy within modern and postmodern cultural theory, from Nietzsche to Freud to Lacan to Derrida and beyond. The most significant critical interpretations of the play will be compared.
Readings/Bibliography
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ed. G.R. Hibbard. Oxford: World’s Classics.
Saxo Grammaticus, The history of the Danes, Books 1-9, ed. Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson. Woodbridge: DS Brewer
Saxo Grammaticus Gesta dei re e degli eroi danesi, a cura di Luddovica Koch e Maria Adele Cipolla. Torino: Einaudi
Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology, ed. Jean I. Young. Berkeley: University of California Press
Other material will be available online.
Assessment methods
Written essay and oral exam.
Office hours
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