I am to write a 20-30 page thesis on "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark (Shakespeare, Hamlet)", and I was wondering if there was a certain viewpoint of critique I should represent that isn't usually done but might function. People usually opt in for the historical aspects of the play and cite material that deals with medieval history of Europe, that's pretty boring imho.
I know the play to a T almost, due to reading it even before high school, and the topic I'm supposed to cover seems pretty lackluster.
>>7716890
not related, but one of my favorite sayings in hamlet is this:
Not a whit. We defy augury. There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is ’t to leave betimes? Let be.
i wrote my first 30 page paper on this back in a TN boarding school. let me see if i can dig up my old notes, i'm sure i have something on your quotation
>>7716890
Do Lacanian post-colonialism.
>>7716910
That would be of immense help.
if you really knew the play to a T shouldn't you have an abundance of ideas on what to write about?
Also if anyone could point me to some worthwhile critiques of Hamlet that you've enjoyed that would be cool too.
>>7716925
I do, it's just that my advisor told me to dissect the quote in a way that I would put less of my personal analysis into it, and more referencing other people's works within the scope of the quote.
