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“What Is He Whose Grief Bears Such An Emphasis?” Hamlet’S Development Of A Mourning Persona, Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey
“What Is He Whose Grief Bears Such An Emphasis?” Hamlet’S Development Of A Mourning Persona, Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey
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Long viewed by scholars as destructive to his selfhood and detrimental to his swift execution of revenge, Hamlet’s concern with the outward expression of his grief actually plays an integral part in his struggles to forge a mourning identity in the wake of his father’s death. The Shakespearean prince’s attempts to faithfully perform his interior bereavement, I contend, are challenged by his father’s command to enact his mourning through outward revenge, which at first seems contrary to Hamlet’s hope to discover a mourning persona consonant with his grief. By the conclusion of the drama, though, Hamlet embraces mourning as part …
Book Notes: Ambiguous Loss. Learning To Live With Unresolved Grief, Between The Alps And A Hard Place: Switzerland In World War Ii And Moral Blackmail Today, Around The World In Twenty Days: The Story Of Our History-Making Balloon Flight, Vergessene Geschichte: Illustrierte Chronik Der Frauenbewegung, Pauline Boss, Angelo Codeville, Bertrand Picard, Brian Jones, Mathe Gosteli
Book Notes: Ambiguous Loss. Learning To Live With Unresolved Grief, Between The Alps And A Hard Place: Switzerland In World War Ii And Moral Blackmail Today, Around The World In Twenty Days: The Story Of Our History-Making Balloon Flight, Vergessene Geschichte: Illustrierte Chronik Der Frauenbewegung, Pauline Boss, Angelo Codeville, Bertrand Picard, Brian Jones, Mathe Gosteli
Swiss American Historical Society Review
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