Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 74
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey 74
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Whither Goest Thou, Public Shakespearian?
- Teaching Shakespeare in a Time of Hate
- Playful Pedagogy and Social Justice: Digital Embodiment in the Shakespeare Classroom
- Digital Resources, Teaching Online and Evolving International Pedagogic Practice
- Teaching Shakespeare with Performance Pedagogy in an Online Environment
- PPE for Shakespearians: Pandemic, Performance and Education
- ‘In India’: Shakespeare and Prison in Kolkata and Mysore
- Shakespeare for Cops
- Younger Generations and Empathic Communication: Learning to Feel in Another Language with Shakespeare at the Silvano Toti Globe Theatre in Rome
- Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century Bengal: An Imperative of ‘New Learning’
- Forging a Republic of Letters: Shakespeare, Politics and a New University in Early Twentieth-Century Portugal
- Cultural Inclusivity and Student Shakespeare Performances in Late-Colonial Singapore, 1950–1959
- Using Performance to Strengthen the Higher Education Sector: Shakespeare in Twenty-First-Century Vietnam
- Counterpublic Shakespeares in the American Education Marketplace
- Taking Love’s Labour’s Lost Seriously
- The Thyestean Language of English Revenge Tragedy on the University and Popular Stages
- Going to School with(out) Shakespeare: Conversations with Edward’s Boys
- Intimacy and Schadenfreude in Reports of Problems in Early Modern Productions
- The True Tragedy as a Yorkist Play? Problems in Textual Transmission
- Henry VIII and Henry IX: Unlived Lives and Re-written Histories
- ‘And His Works in a Glass Case’: The Bard in the Garden and the Legacy of the Shakespeare Ladies Club
- Hamlet and John Austen’s Devil with a (Dis)pleasing Shape
- Shakespeare, #MeToo and his New Contemporaries
- ‘While Memory Holds a Seat in this Distracted Globe’: A Look Back at the Arden Shakespeare Third Series (1995–2020)
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2020
- The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
- ABSTRACTS OF ARTICLES IN SHAKESPEARE SURVEY 74
- Index
Hamlet and John Austen’s Devil with a (Dis)pleasing Shape
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 August 2021
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Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 74
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey 74
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Whither Goest Thou, Public Shakespearian?
- Teaching Shakespeare in a Time of Hate
- Playful Pedagogy and Social Justice: Digital Embodiment in the Shakespeare Classroom
- Digital Resources, Teaching Online and Evolving International Pedagogic Practice
- Teaching Shakespeare with Performance Pedagogy in an Online Environment
- PPE for Shakespearians: Pandemic, Performance and Education
- ‘In India’: Shakespeare and Prison in Kolkata and Mysore
- Shakespeare for Cops
- Younger Generations and Empathic Communication: Learning to Feel in Another Language with Shakespeare at the Silvano Toti Globe Theatre in Rome
- Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century Bengal: An Imperative of ‘New Learning’
- Forging a Republic of Letters: Shakespeare, Politics and a New University in Early Twentieth-Century Portugal
- Cultural Inclusivity and Student Shakespeare Performances in Late-Colonial Singapore, 1950–1959
- Using Performance to Strengthen the Higher Education Sector: Shakespeare in Twenty-First-Century Vietnam
- Counterpublic Shakespeares in the American Education Marketplace
- Taking Love’s Labour’s Lost Seriously
- The Thyestean Language of English Revenge Tragedy on the University and Popular Stages
- Going to School with(out) Shakespeare: Conversations with Edward’s Boys
- Intimacy and Schadenfreude in Reports of Problems in Early Modern Productions
- The True Tragedy as a Yorkist Play? Problems in Textual Transmission
- Henry VIII and Henry IX: Unlived Lives and Re-written Histories
- ‘And His Works in a Glass Case’: The Bard in the Garden and the Legacy of the Shakespeare Ladies Club
- Hamlet and John Austen’s Devil with a (Dis)pleasing Shape
- Shakespeare, #MeToo and his New Contemporaries
- ‘While Memory Holds a Seat in this Distracted Globe’: A Look Back at the Arden Shakespeare Third Series (1995–2020)
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2020
- The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
- ABSTRACTS OF ARTICLES IN SHAKESPEARE SURVEY 74
- Index
Summary
The Ghost’s depiction in recent film and stage productions of Hamlet ranges from paternal and benevolent to potentially demonic. In Branagh’s 1996 film, it (Brian Blessed) whispers to Hamlet from among the trees in an ominous wood, before descending out of nowhere and grasping him by the throat. It continues to whisper with a harsh intensity, but its voice conveys little change in emotion and its expression is fixed. Its eyes are a shining pale blue, evoking the supernatural; it is easy to think that this Ghost might be demonic. In contrast, Doran’s Ghost (Patrick Stewart) speaks and acts like a living person, alternating between distress, outrage and indignation, physically expressive and pacing about energetically. At one point it clutches Hamlet in a fervent embrace – after temporarily assaulting him. Doran’s performance was consistent between stage production and its accompanying film released the following year.
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- Shakespeare Survey 74Shakespeare and Education, pp. 317 - 341Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021