Tag: Hamlet
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The sweet smell of success
Howard Fischer Uppsala, Sweden Cropped from photo by Kat Jayne from Pexels “You shall nose him . . .” — Hamlet, Act IV, scene III It was July 1977. After having done a rotating internship, I was starting my pediatric residency at the academic children’s hospital. My first rotation was in the outpatient…
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Madness and gender in Gregory Doran’s Hamlet
Sarah Bahr Indianapolis, Indiana, United States John Everett Millais, Ophelia, 1851-52, Tate Britain, London. In director Gregory Doran’s 2009 film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, David Tennant’s Hamlet becomes a bawdy lunatic who consciously or unconsciously uncouples himself from reality. The intentionality of Hamlet’s madness is more muddled than in Shakespeare’s text because of the…
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Anatomical ghosts in The Merchant of Venice
Mauro Spicci Antonio and the dangers of self-diagnosis In the last few years the steadily growing number of attempts to read Shakespeare’s plays from a medical perspective has been justified by the idea that they are not simply the immortal fruits of a genius, but also documents reflecting the historical, cultural, and social background…