Who Owns Hamlet? Gerhart Hauptmannâs Reconstruction of the Danish Prince

Curtis L. Maughan

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For more than a decade, Gerhart Hauptmann dedicated himself to a scholarly and artistic engagement with Shakespeare and his works, Hamlet in particular. The essays, addresses, adaptations, drama, and autobiographical novel that resulted from Hauptmannâs avid pursuit of the Hamlet mythology constitute a multimedia act of cultural transfer that signals a progressive, pan-European impulse within the history of German Shakespeare reception. At the center of Hauptmannâs reconstruction of the Danish Prince lies the image of an unfinished Torso, which, like the statue in Johann Joachim Winckelmannâs Beschreibung des Torso im Belvedere zu Rom, cries out to its audience to be made whole again.

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Shakespeare as German Author

Reception, Translation Theory, and Cultural Transfer

Series:Â Amsterdamer BeitrÃ¤ge zur neueren Germanistik, Volume: 90Â andÂ Amsterdamer BeitrÃ¤ge zur neueren Germanistik, Volume: 90

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 08 Mar 2018

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