Hamleteen: A Search for Identity
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Hamleteen: A Search for Identity
Original language description
The chapter explores the production of "Hamleteen", an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet directed by Jakub Vašíček and specifically intended for young audiences. Working with various interpretive lenses, this chapter may help to understand Hamlet's desire to revolt against the narrow-minded smallness of the surrounding world and make his way from adolescence to adulthood. The objectives are threefold: First, it can be argued that Shakespeare's tragedy provides a provocative framework for rethinking both the contours and the meanings of Hamlet's transition to adulthood. The emphasis on the prince's adolescence (with all its hormonal, societal and physical pressures) adds a new dimension to the play and further contributes to a grotesque effect in the representation of the world's distorted values. Second, Hamlet's various subcultural stylisations can be perceived first as a search for identity and a quest for stable moral values (Scouting), and later as an act of resistance, part of wh
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA13-14048S" target="_blank" >GA13-14048S: Anglo-American Drama in Czech Theatres during World War I</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
A Search for Identity
ISBN
978-80-261-0323-3
Number of pages of the result
22
Pages from-to
64-85
Number of pages of the book
185
Publisher name
Západočeská univerzita v Plzni
Place of publication
Plzeň
UT code for WoS chapter
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