Hamlet a longtemps été une partie inséparable de l'identité nationale russe. Cependant, les mises en scène d’Hamlet en Union soviétique (surtout en Russie) durant l'époque de Staline présentèrent des problèmes spécifiques liés aux doctrines idéologiques imposées sur les arts et la culture en général ainsi qu’aux idées reçues concernant l’opinion personnelle de Staline envers de la tragédie. Les deux mises en scènes principales d’Hamlet en Russie au cours de cette période ont été celles réalisées par Nikolai Akimov (1932) et Sergei Radlov (1938). Un réexamen approfondi de ces mises en scène, entrepris dans les chapitres centraux de cette thèse, révèle des détails précédemment inconnus au sujet de leurs conceptions, réalisations, réceptions et au-delà. Cela met en évidence l'importance du rôle de la musique de scène composée pour elles par Dimitri Chostakovitch et par Sergei Prokofiev, respectivement, et suggère l'interaction complexe des agendas individuels et institutionnels. Ce travail a été rendu possible grâce à de nombreuses visites aux archives russes, qui contiennent de précieux documents tels que des livrets des mises en scène et les rapports sténographiques de discussions, précédemment non référencées à l'Ouest. Ces chapitres centraux sont précédés d'un aperçu historique d’Hamlet en Russie et de la musique et de Shakespeare en général. Ils sont suivis par une enquête au sujet des adaptations notables d’Hamlet à la fin de l’époque de Staline et après la mort du dictateur, se concentrant sur ceux qui contiennent les contributions musicales les plus importantes. Le résultat est un aperçu plus riche et plus complexe de l'image familière d’Hamlet comme miroir de la société russe / soviétique. / Hamlet has long been an inseparable part of Russian national identity. Staging Hamlet in Russia during the Stalin era, however, presented particular problems connected with the ideological framework imposed on the arts and culture as well as with Stalin’s own negative perceived view of the tragedy. The two major productions of Hamlet in Russia during this period were those directed by Nikolai Akimov (1932) and Sergei Radlov (1938). Thorough re-examination of these productions, as undertaken in the central chapters of this dissertation, reveals much previously unknown detail about their conception, realisation, reception and afterlife. It highlights the importance of the role of music composed for them by Dmitry Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev, respectively, and it suggests a complex interaction of individual and institutional agendas. This work has been made possible by numerous visits to Russian archives, which contain invaluable documents such as production books and stenographic reports of discussions, previously unreferenced in Western scholarship. These central chapters are preceded by a historical overview of Hamlet in Russia and of music and Shakespeare in general. They are followed by a survey of major adaptations of Hamlet in the late-Stalin era and beyond, concentrating on those with significant musical contributions. The outcome is a richer and more complex account of the familiar image of Hamlet as a mirror of Russian/Soviet society.

This thesis deals with the subject of independent theatre in Prague. Its aim is to present the current representative of the Prague independent theatre operators in the cultural centres as well as between performing arts organizations. The theoretical part provides a brief overview of entities operating in this sector. Within the practical part one selected artistic entity is analysed in detail in terms of its repertoire and financing. Further, one of its major projects is also being analysed. In conclusion, the issue is even more insight in today's society through the lens of the processed survey. Labour aims to map the situation in today's theatre scene and the chosen example to present the possibilities and limitations with which operators may face.

[pt] O objetivo desta dissertação é o estudo do tema do luto na obra de Lacan. É com este intuito que se pretende desenvolver alguns aspectos do luto no ensino lacaniano. Lacan aborda o luto do ponto de vista do ato, o ato inibido. Assim, pode-se tomar como exemplo Hamlet, personagem que se encontra numa relação problemática com seu ato, em função de seu desejo. Ele não consegue cumprir a missão que lhe foi atribuída, Hamlet só consegue realizar seu ato, quando conclui o trabalho de luto, recuperando seu desejo. A dissertação se desenvolve partindo da formulação freudiana de que a perda exige a realização de um luto, sendo que este luto pode ser realizado naturalmente, com o tempo, sem qualquer intervenção o que seria o luto normal. De outro modo, o luto desencadeado pode não alcançar um fim espontâneo, permanecendo travado. Nessa situação, o luto irá se transformar em luto patológico. Lacan demonstra que o enlutado encontra-se numa posição problemática com relação ao desejo do Outro, assim, a dificuldade do luto se relaciona à perda da possibilidade de saber que objeto era para o desejo do Outro. Para Lacan, o que está implicado no trabalho de luto é a manutenção dos vínculos por onde o desejo está suspenso. Para se chegar ao desejo, há o tempo da angústia, a angústia aqui é a angústia da castração. Quanto mais angústia, mais inibição, menos trabalho de luto. A direção do tratamento analítico do enlutado seria transformar o luto patológico em trabalho de luto, transformar inibição em desejo. / [en] The objective of this dissertation is the study of mourning within Lacan works. With this, it will be developed some aspects of mourning within Lacan teaching. Lacan approaches mourning in the perspective of the act, the inhibited act. Thus, it is possible to take Hamlet as an example, a character that finds himself bound to a tough and problematic connection with his act because of his desire. He fails in fulfilling the mission assigned to him, Hamlet can act only when he lives the mourning and pulls his desire back. The dissertation unfolds from the freudian formulation based on which the loss demands mourning and this mourning can only be lived naturally, with time, without any intervention; this would be the normal mourning. Otherwise, the mourning unleashed can t reach its spontaneous end, and remains blocked. Within this circumstance, mourning will turn into pathological mourning. Lacan demonstrates that the individual in mourning is in a problematic position in relation to the desire of the Other, thus, the difficulty of the mourning is connected to the loss of the possibility of knowing what the object meant to the Other s desire. Lacan believes that what is implied in the mourning is the maintenance of the bonds through where desire is suspended. To reach desire, there is a time of anguish, and said anguish is the anguish of castration. The greater the anguish, the greater is the inhibition, and less mourning. The direction of the psychoanalytical treatment of the individual in mourning would be to transform the pathological mourning into normal mourning, transform inhibition in desire.

For my graduation project I was interested in title cards, intertitles and captions from past films and clips. I am fascinated by their typography and art, but also the visual aspects of age and use. Aided by the writings of the artist and filmmaker Hito Steyerl, I explored the world of the poor quality image, an image that has been copied and pasted into different (mainly digital) channels of distribution. I found my own way of translating the visual language of an image with a past. Quoting one of the most retold (copied and pasted) plays; The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark written by William Shakespeare, ca 1600.

This document's purpose is to analyze dualities found in different films of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Each version brings different ideas to it. By analyzing each version and focusing on the Ghost Scene, comparisons of the scene's symbolism are made between the musical scores. The beginning chapters provide a history of film, film music, the play, and events up to the ghost scene. After these chapters come analyses of the scene itself. Each version uses different parts of the play for its own purposes, but there are many commonalities between them. The score for each version of the Ghost Scene will be analyzed independently of each other. This work will contribute to musicology, film research, Shakespeare studies, and English scholarship.

This essay has investigated the use of Shakespearean texts as well as tasks associated with those texts in upper secondary textbooks. The investigation looked at both which texts of Shakespeare’s are most frequent and how students are supposed to work with the texts. Furthermore the textbooks cover 20 years (1995-2015) and as such the study also analysed whether or not the selection and tasks have changed, i.e. whether they remain the same today as they did 20 years ago. The findings indicated that Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet were the two most frequent texts and that the tasks have gone from being individual to focusing on group work. The analysis also showed that while Shakespeare during the beginning of the 20 year period was the most dominant or sole author mentioned, this role has been reduced during more recent years. The conclusions drawn concerning the findings emphasise the syllabi and how they influence the content and format of the textbooks as well as the importance of canonicity.

The most widely disseminated narrative about the origins of Shakespeare’s Hamlet describes the playwright completing the second quarto (Q2) c. 1600; that play was passed to his company, divided into parts, performed, and memorially reconstructed by an actor or actors-cum-reporter(s), for playing in the provinces. This text was then printed as the first quarto (Q1) in 1603. The thesis begins by questioning how secure the evidence is firstly for the date of c. 1600, and secondly for memorial reconstruction as the explanation for the relationship of the quartos. The review of contemporary documents regarding the date shows that neither Thomas Nashe’s Preface (1589), nor Philip Henslowe’s Diary entry (1594) nor Thomas Lodge’s Wits Miserie (1596) indicate the author of the Hamlet they mention, and that Francis Meres’ oppositive style in his Palladis Tamia (1598) precludes the inference that Hamlet was omitted because it was not yet written. Together these texts leave open the possibility that the early Hamlet was by Shakespeare. The examination of the primary, underlying source of the play is more conclusive. This shows through the first three way comparison between the quartos and Les Histoires Tragiques that Q1 is closer to the French source than Q2 and that the density of echoes from the source in Q1 is approximately double that of the echoes in Q2. The comparison also offers an innovative, text-based reason for the very different scene 14 of Q1 and act IV scene vi of Q2. Further investigation shows that there is no evidence that Q1 was illegally printed, and new quantitative analysis demonstrates that the analogy of The School for Scandal’s memorial reconstruction (1779) undermines rather than supports the hypothesis of memorial reconstruction. Instead the analyses point to the priority of Q1, and offer fresh evidence for a case that Q1 represents a first draft and Q2 a revised version, which probably was indeed dated c. 1600.

Diese Dissertation liefert einen kulturhistorischen Überblick über die Darstellung der Frauenfiguren Gertrude und Ophelia in Hamlet-Verfilmungen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die beiden weiblichen Gestalten werden dabei im Hinblick auf ihr äußeres Erscheinungsbild wie auch ihre Charakterzeichnung vor dem historischen, kulturellen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Entstehungshintergrund der Filme beleuchtet. Die Analysen konzentrieren sich ausschließlich auf Kinofilme, da diese ein wesentlich breiteres Publikum erreichen als etwa die diversen Bühnen- oder Textfassungen des Stücks. Die erste der insgesamt zwanzig untersuchten Leinwandfassungen entstand im Jahre 1900, die letzte kam 2000 in die Kinos – die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt also eine genau 100-jährige Tradition der Hamlet-Verfilmungen. / This doctoral thesis provides a comprehensive historico-cultural analysis of the figures of Gertrude and Ophelia as portrayed in Hamlet film adaptations of the 20th century. The two female figures are examined with a special emphasis on their outward appearance and character disposition, which are set against the historical, cultural, political and social background of when the films were produced. These analyses focus exclusively on film adaptations made for cinematic release, which have a larger audience than the various book versions and TV and stage productions of the play. The first of the overall twenty Hamlet films discussed here was made in 1900, the last one in 2000 – the work at hand comprises therefore a one-hundred-year-old tradition of Hamlet film adaptations.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, 2014.

In offering readings of Shakespeare’s tragic women on film, this thesis explores bodies that are caught between signifiers of absence and presence: the woman’s body that is present with absent body parts; the woman’s body that is spoken about or alluded to when absent from view; the woman’s living body that appears as a corpse; the woman’s body that must be exposed and concealed from sight. These are bodies that appear on the borderline of meaning, that open up a marginal or liminal space of investigation. In concentrating on a state of ‘betweenness’, I am seeking to offer new interpretive possibilities for bodies that have become the site of much critical anxiety, and bodies that, due to their own peculiar liminality, have so far been critically ignored. In reading Shakespeare’s tragic women on film, I am interested specifically in screen representations of Gertrude’s sexualised body that is both absent and present in Shakespeare’s Hamlet; Desdemona’s (un)chaste body that is both exposed and concealed in film adaptations of Othello; Juliet’s ‘living corpse’ that represents life and death in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet; the woman’s naked body in Roman Polanski’s Macbeth (1971) that is absent from Shakespeare’s play-text; and Lavinia’s violated, dismembered body in Julie Taymor’s (Titus, 1999) and Titus Andronicus, which, in signifying both life and death, wholeness and fragmentation, absence and presence, something and nothing, embodies many of the paradoxes explored within this thesis. Through readings that demonstrate a combined interest in Shakespeare’s plays, Shakespeare films, and Shakespeare criticism, this thesis brings these liminal bodies into focus, revealing how an understanding of their ‘absent presence’ can affect our responses as spectators of Shakespeare’s tragedies on film.