Reproduction de : Thèse de doctorat : Langue, littérature et civilisation des pays anglo-saxons : Lille 3 : 2007. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. Bibliogr. p. 419-431. Notes bibliogr. Index.

Thesis (Ph.D)--Boston University. / This study of Macbeth shows that ceremony and ceremonials contribute significantly to the total artistry of the play. The discussion centers attention on Shakespeare's use of ceremonial metaphor, the ceremonials of prayer and feasting, the courtesies of address and leave-taking, and the service and pageantry of Attendants, Messengers, Soldiers and Servants. It also calls attention to the wealth of ceremonial materials in Shakespeare's plays as a whole, and, whenever pertinent, briefly relates these materials to Shakespeare's development as an artist, to literary and stage traditions, to the work of other playwrights, and to the contemporary world view. The Appendix offers studies of the ceremonial of prayer in Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. The first chapter defines ceremony and related terms, surveys the many forms of ceremony that appear in the plays, and illustrates the varied use Shakespeare makes of those forms. Emphasis falls on the ceremony found in poetry, music, and heraldry; in courtly, festival, military, and legal occasions; in rites ot prayer, christenings, weddings, and burials, and in such miscellaneous forms as vows, visions, conjuring, and memorials. Thus ceremony and ceremonials share in the artistic unity of Macbeth, in the complexity of its materials, in the profound implications of its themes, and in the subtle harmony between its language and content. [TRUNCATED]

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Thesis (doctoral)--Uppsala University, 1985. / Bibliogr. p. 167-174. Index. -

Resumo: Esta tese mapeia as representações da personagem Ofélia de Shakespeare na Inglaterra vitoriana em três áreas nas quais ela ganhou maior expressividade: em edições, no palco e na iconografia. Trata-se, portanto, de um estudo interdisciplinar, que se insere na área dos estudos culturais. A premissa básica é a de que a ubíqua presença de Ofélia na cultura vitoriana serve como exemplo paradigmático do que Raymond Williams chama de "estrutura de sentimento", ou seja, a personagem constitui um veículo adequado para compreendermos os paradoxos da época, principalmente no que diz respeito aos papéis femininos. A divisão da tese é arquitetada em três capítulos que lidam com as especificidades de cada representação, mostrando, também, como eles se interconectam dinamicamente. O material analisado contempla duas edições familiares de Hamlet; duas "narrativas instrutivas"; um roteiro cênico; uma pintura e um poema. Para auxiliar e elucidar as maneiras pelas quais Ofélia foi apropriada, lancei mão de textos os mais diversos: comentários de críticos de teatro e pintura; observações de atores e escritores; atitudes da época com relação ao suicídio feminino; a vida de Elizabeth Siddall, bem como a crítica contemporânea. As representações de Ofélia sublinham a permeabilidade das fronteiras das artes e também nos mostram, em maneiras que escapam a nossa compreensão, como a vida muitas vezes imita a arte.

The study of the question of why Shakespeare's Hamlet delays killing Claudius in revenge for his father's murder is examined in light of the major critical theories from neo-classical to modern scholarship. An expanded treatment of the works of Fredson Bowers, Eleanor Prosser, Bertram Joseph, and Roland Frye, is provided to examine the Elizabethan background of social, political, and religious values. The experience of passionate revenge on the human psyche of the revenger is addressed through an ancillary approach provided through the works of the Freudian analyst Ernest Jones and the psychoanalytic theory of Avi Erlich. The purpose of this study is to review the relevant theories of Hamlet's delay, and to apply the wisdom gleaned from such an examination so as to create a synthesis that may best answer the question of why Hamlet delays. / Graduation date: 1996

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I have proved that prevarication is a current that initiates the evil actions that are committed. I have traced some of the oblique, dishonest euphemisms used by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in their language in their attempt to deceive themselves and others of their intentions. This linguistic device sharpens our awareness of their prevarication and avoidance of facing the truth, and their attempt at self-deception and equivocation. They enter into physical and spiritual duplicity. The Witches are structurally important and function in contributing to the ambiguous action of the play, and initiate the symbolism of darkness and evil that prevails. Macbeth's echoic diction links him to the forces of equivocation. Banquo dismisses their information, whereas Macbeth's empathy with the Witches and his ripeness for corruption result in the same information becoming disinformation to him. Macbeth's prevarication continues in order to secure his position obtained through heinous crimes and his lack of integrity in a world where it is difficult to distinguish appearance and reality. Lady Macbeth reveals she is in corrupt collusion with Macbeth, is a prevaricator by means of obliquity and mutual intrigue, and shows her shrewdness and hypocrisy towards Duncan. She undermines logic, imagination and metaphysics and overpowers Macbeth's indecision to commit the murder, as she acts as a "thorn" to his conscience challenging his manhood and courage. Macbeth is coerced into acceding to the murder as a result of Lady Macbeth's bombastic exposure of the frailties violated by evil. The images of blood and sight merge when Macbeth sees his horrific hands after the murder a murder that symbolically "murders" sleep. Shakespeare uses the Porter to indicate the "equivocator" is synonymous with Macbeth, the prevaricator. Storms accompany the central action of the murder of Duncan, and the tremendous upheaval of nature reflects the tempest roaring within Macbeth. Macbeth's swollen, puffed up, deceptive language in his false declaration of his mourning for the loss of Duncan, illustrates his ability to prevaricate at his best. After Duncan's murder, Macbeth continues to secure his power and security by his desperate series of futile murders, which he commits without a moral self-catechismal examination of his conscience: he prevaricates with impunity. From their earlier close intimate association there is a deterioration in the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth: their ways have separated through guilt and lack of trust. Lady Macbeth declines to a languid, exhausted woman in the sleep-walking scene, as she recalls her past crimes and atrocities. Her personal confusion, anguish and disorientation result in a cataclysmic shudder that leads to her physical and spiritual implosion. Macbeth remains physically aggressive. His tactics for his physical confrontation with death are irrevocable: he suffers an isolated spiritual implosion in his virtual negation of life. I have shown that Macbeth is an orchestrated composition in which prevarication is the tool used for furthering ambition that motivates the action of the drama. / Thesis (MA)--PU vir CHO, 1986

I have proved that prevarication is a current that initiates the evil actions that are committed. I have traced some of the oblique, dishonest euphemisms used by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in their language in their attempt to deceive themselves and others of their intentions. This linguistic device sharpens our awareness of their prevarication and avoidance of facing the truth, and their attempt at self-deception and equivocation. They enter into physical and spiritual duplicity. The Witches are structurally important and function in contributing to the ambiguous action of the play, and initiate the symbolism of darkness and evil that prevails. Macbeth's echoic diction links him to the forces of equivocation. Banquo dismisses their information, whereas Macbeth's empathy with the Witches and his ripeness for corruption result in the same information becoming disinformation to him. Macbeth's prevarication continues in order to secure his position obtained through heinous crimes and his lack of integrity in a world where it is difficult to distinguish appearance and reality. Lady Macbeth reveals she is in corrupt collusion with Macbeth, is a prevaricator by means of obliquity and mutual intrigue, and shows her shrewdness and hypocrisy towards Duncan. She undermines logic, imagination and metaphysics and overpowers Macbeth's indecision to commit the murder, as she acts as a "thorn" to his conscience challenging his manhood and courage. Macbeth is coerced into acceding to the murder as a result of Lady Macbeth's bombastic exposure of the frailties violated by evil. The images of blood and sight merge when Macbeth sees his horrific hands after the murder a murder that symbolically "murders" sleep. Shakespeare uses the Porter to indicate the "equivocator" is synonymous with Macbeth, the prevaricator. Storms accompany the central action of the murder of Duncan, and the tremendous upheaval of nature reflects the tempest roaring within Macbeth. Macbeth's swollen, puffed up, deceptive language in his false declaration of his mourning for the loss of Duncan, illustrates his ability to prevaricate at his best. After Duncan's murder, Macbeth continues to secure his power and security by his desperate series of futile murders, which he commits without a moral self-catechismal examination of his conscience: he prevaricates with impunity. From their earlier close intimate association there is a deterioration in the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth: their ways have separated through guilt and lack of trust. Lady Macbeth declines to a languid, exhausted woman in the sleep-walking scene, as she recalls her past crimes and atrocities. Her personal confusion, anguish and disorientation result in a cataclysmic shudder that leads to her physical and spiritual implosion. Macbeth remains physically aggressive. His tactics for his physical confrontation with death are irrevocable: he suffers an isolated spiritual implosion in his virtual negation of life. I have shown that Macbeth is an orchestrated composition in which prevarication is the tool used for furthering ambition that motivates the action of the drama. / Thesis (MA)--PU vir CHO, 1986