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    Hamlet: the play within the play

    Woods, Gillian (2016) Hamlet: the play within the play. British Library.

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    Abstract

    From The Murder of Gonzago to Hamlet's pretence of madness, Hamlet is a work obsessed with acting and deception. Gillian Woods explores how the play unsettles distinctions between performance and reality and how it thus exposes the mechanisms of theatre.

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    Item Type: Other
    Additional Information: Blog
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Deception, drama and misunderstanding, Tragedies
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
    Research Centres and Institutes: Contemporary Theatre, Birkbeck Centre for
    Depositing User: Gillian Woods
    Date Deposited: 19 Oct 2016 09:59
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:39
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/16275

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