The foreshadowing of bildungsroman in the character development of the characters in William Shakespeare's plays
In her article – “Hamlet before Its Time”, Margreta De Grazia states that “Hamlet has kept pace with the advancing time; he is timeless in value precisely because he is found timely by each successive age.” (De Grazia 355) One will then ask, what is this quality in Shakespeare’s...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59285 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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| Summary: | In her article – “Hamlet before Its Time”, Margreta De Grazia states that “Hamlet has
kept pace with the advancing time; he is timeless in value precisely because he is found timely
by each successive age.” (De Grazia 355) One will then ask, what is this quality in Shakespeare’s
Hamlet, which makes it “[seemingly] anachronous with its own time and contemporaneous with
works [that is] several centuries later?” (De Grazia 355) This quality is the character
development of Shakespeare’s plays foreshadows the literary movement of Bildungsroman |
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