Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Preedy, Chloe Kathleen
• Fiona McHardy
• Lesel Dawson

Titel

‘Women’s Weapons: Education and Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage

Ist Teil von

• Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature, 2018, p.181

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• ‘My tables! Meet it is I set it down’, exclaims the most famous revenger of the early modern theatre, as he employs the study methods he has acquired at university to record a ghost’s lesson of murder and retribution.¹ While initially promising that ‘thy commandment all alone shall live / Within the book and volume of my brain’ (1.5.102–3), Hamlet will later rely on his prior learning to test the truth of his uncle’s guilt, composing ‘a speech of some dozen lines’ that, inserted intoThe Murder of Gonzago,enables him to try the king and ‘tent him to