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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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