Hamlet's Age and the Earl of Southampton

Hamlet's Age and the Earl of Southampton
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 165
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ISBN-10 : 9781443896139
ISBN-13 : 1443896136
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Download or read book Hamlet's Age and the Earl of Southampton written by Lars Kaaber and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamlet’s Age and the Earl of Southampton investigates the exact age of the eponymous prince in Shakespeare’s play, a topic which has been subject to frequent debates over the past 239 years. Whether Hamlet is sixteen, eighteen or, as the Gravedigger states in Act V, thirty years old may seem irrelevant to performances of the play (since actors tackling the part are very rarely in their teens), but it still tends to influence our general view of the Danish prince. Romantic criticism in the early 19th century insisted on a heroic and supremely intelligent teenage prince, and, to a large extent, this view of Hamlet still prevails. Whether Shakespeare meant his protagonist to be the irreproachable prince of Romantic fancy, however, remains a question. Numerous scholars have found references to the Earl of Essex in Hamlet, but Henry Wriothesley, the third Earl of Southampton, once indisputably Shakespeare’s patron, is a far more likely candidate. If Shakespeare had Southampton in mind when writing his Danish tragedy, this would account for the Gravedigger’s estimate of Hamlet’s age in Act V and explain several things that have puzzled us over the last four centuries.


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