To be full of oneself: performance destruction in Shakespeare's Hamlet & Julius Caesar

Many of Shakespeare’s characters are often subjected to certain roles or personalities either by themselves or by others, sometimes playing the role of disguise with specific purposes. By presenting conflict, trauma and madness through soliloquies, the literal act of acting, and literal and symbolic...

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Main Author: Ho, Ching Wai
Other Authors: Wong Yeang Chui
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1660452023-04-22T16:55:56Z To be full of oneself: performance destruction in Shakespeare's Hamlet & Julius Caesar Ho, Ching Wai Wong Yeang Chui School of Humanities YC.Wong@ntu.edu.sg Humanities::Language::English Many of Shakespeare’s characters are often subjected to certain roles or personalities either by themselves or by others, sometimes playing the role of disguise with specific purposes. By presenting conflict, trauma and madness through soliloquies, the literal act of acting, and literal and symbolic death, the distinction between the public and the private self is blurred in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Julius Caesar. Shakespeare’s plays therefore problematises the act of performance as it not only complicates the relationship between the public and the private, it destroys this dichotomy. Performance, therefore, as the essay title announces, acts as a constriction, more like a chaotic and careless and thereby dangerous freedom. Bachelor of Arts in English 2023-04-17T13:24:34Z 2023-04-17T13:24:34Z 2023 Final Year Project (FYP) Ho, C. W. (2023). To be full of oneself: performance destruction in Shakespeare's Hamlet & Julius Caesar. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/166045 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/166045 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University
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To be full of oneself: performance destruction in Shakespeare's Hamlet & Julius Caesar
description Many of Shakespeare’s characters are often subjected to certain roles or personalities either by themselves or by others, sometimes playing the role of disguise with specific purposes. By presenting conflict, trauma and madness through soliloquies, the literal act of acting, and literal and symbolic death, the distinction between the public and the private self is blurred in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Julius Caesar. Shakespeare’s plays therefore problematises the act of performance as it not only complicates the relationship between the public and the private, it destroys this dichotomy. Performance, therefore, as the essay title announces, acts as a constriction, more like a chaotic and careless and thereby dangerous freedom.
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