Stylesheet for "Hamlet's Presence"

 

Examples:

3.2.15 suit the action to the word the word to the action
Thackeray, William Makepiece: The History of Pendennis. His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy. With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by the Author (1848-1850) London: Bradbury and Evans, 1849, 2 vols, p. 102.
The Captain suited the action to the word, and his blood-shot eyes were suffused with water, as he addressed the Major.
Quotation
Contributed by Philipp Hottinger, 19 Dec 2002

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Situation
Thackeray, William Makepiece: The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. a Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Q. Anne. Written By Himself. In Three Volumes (1852) London: Smith, Elder, & Company 1852, 3 vols , p. 94.
'Tis true Mr. Esmond often boasted of republican principles and could remember many fine speeches he had made at College and elsewhere, with worth and not birth for a text: but Tom Tusher, to take the place of the noble Castlewood---faugh! 'twas as monstrous as King Hamlet's widow taking off her weeds for Claudius. Esmond laughed at all widows, all wives, all women; [...]
Allusion to incest and second marriage, misogynist statement about 'all women's' behaviour.
Contributed by Philipp Hottinger, 19 Dec 2002

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Performance
Thackeray, William Makepiece: The History of Pendennis. His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy. With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by the Author (1848-1850) London: Bradbury and Evans, 1849, p.59
Mr. Hornbull, from London, was the Hamlet of the night, [...] // [...] Ophelia looked lovely, and performed with admirable wild pathos: [...] She made the most charming corpse ever seen; and while Hamlet and Laertes were battling in her grave, she was looking out from the back scenes with some curiosity towards Pen's box, and the family party assembled in it. // There was but one voice in her praise there. Mrs. Pendennis was in ecstacies with her beauty. Little Laura was bewildered by the piece, and the Ghost, and the play within the play, (during which, as Hamlet lay at Ophelia's knee, Pen felt that he would have liked to strangle Mr. Hornbull), but cried out great praises of that beautiful young creature. Pen was charmed with the effect which she produced on his mother---and the clergyman, for his part, was exceedingly enthusiastic. // When the curtain fell upon that group of slaughtered personages, who are dispatched so suddenly at the end of "Hamlet," and whose demise astonished poor little Laura not a little, there was an immense shouting and applause from all quarters of the house; [...]
Allusion to a fictional Hamlet performance , as well as the reception of it by the novel's characters. Irony.
Contributed by Philipp Hottinger, 19 Dec 2002

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1. Type of Reference:

- Quotation or Allusion: position in Hamlet text: Act, Scene, Line (New Cambridge ed) in arabic numbers, separated by stops, e.g. 3.4.179; followed by Hamlet line
- Plot: reference to an element of plot
- Scene: reference to a particular scene
- Figure: reference to a stage figure
- The play: reference to the whole play
- Performance: reference to a particular Hamlet performance (fictional or real)
- Situation: reference to a dramatic/psychological/... situation similar/analogous to Hamlet
- Shakespeare: reference to Sh., the Work of Sh., the man, the dramatist
- Special: other reference

 

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Auhor's Surname, Author's Firstname: 'Title' (year of first publ.) In Title ed by Editor's Name. Place: Placename, Year of ed.,p. Pagenumber.

 

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