Skuespil: tragedier

Hamlet (1601) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Inspired by Danish historian Saxo Grammatica's legend of Amleth, which Shakespeare likely encountered in a retelling by French scholar Francois de Belleforest, Hamlet was written sometime between 1599 and 1601. Alongside Romeo and Juliet, it is one of Shakespeare's most performed plays and has served as source material for countless film and television adaptations. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." For his wit and wordplay alone, William Shakespeare is often considered the greatest writer to ever work in the English language. Where he truly triumphs, however, is in his ability to portray complex human emotions, how these emotions contribute to relationships, and how these relationships interact with politics, culture, and religion. Hamlet is a story of things seen and unseen. Ghosts, assassins, shadowy plots, a play within a play, lengthy asides-its universe swirls with paranoia and fear, allowing us to enter the mind of its troubled protagonist. When the ghost of his father appears on the castle rampart, Danish prince Hamlet grows increasingly suspicious of his uncle Polonius' role in the former king's death. As his relationships with Ophelia, his lover, and Gertrude, his mother, begin to sour, Hamlet loses sight of his duties as a leader. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of William Shakespeare's Hamlet is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

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Tolv skæbnefortællinger. Tolv præcise nedslag i en verden, der er ved at gå under. Titlen i sig selv har en dybt ironisk klang, for selvom Soli Deo Gloria betyder ‘Al ære tilkommer Gud’, er der et mærkbart fravær af en Gud i Peter Asmussens prisvindende tekst, hvor karaktererne er faret vild i deres liv og står på kanten af tilværelsen. Mød parret, der har så travlt med at skændes, at de overser deres døende baby. Soldaten, der vender hjem og skyder på uskyldige. Pigen, der kan overleve KZ-lejren, hvis hun viser bødlen kærlighed. En kvinde, der skærer i sig selv for at mærke livet. Selvmordsbomberen. Manden, der bruger beskidtetricks for at få eneretten til barnet. Mændene, der har sex, mens verden går under. Og to fugle, der synger, når vi alle er væk.

Prisvindende ny dansk dramatik om at bygge op og rive ned. Det startede egentlig som et ganske lille problem. Carlo, en aldrende betonarbejder, sætter et hjørne forkert af. 50 mm. Om det er tegningen eller Carlos slørede blik, efter at have indtaget en ikke uanselig mængde af alkohol, vil nok forevigt stå hen i det uvisse. Men hjørnet skal bankes ned og støbes på ny. Hvilket betyder, at det entreprenørfirma, som skal rejse elementerne, bliver forsinkede. Og det kan den kran, som skal hejse dem på plads, ikke vente på, hvorfor den bliver afsat til andre opgaver. Det er her tidsplanen begynder at skride. Og det er selvfølgelig ikke kun Carlos skyld, omend man joker med det rundt om på pladsen. Men når tidsplanen skrider, så skriderbudgettet også, og så varer det ikke længe, før der også blivertalt både polsk og tjekkisk på byggepladsen.

Tragic Workings in Euripides’ Drama offers a substantially new theory and method for understanding Attic tragedy. Starting from anthropological insights, and drawing on Aristotle’s theory of the specific ‘tragic’ reactions of ‘shock and horror’ as well as his propositions on the ‘tragic’ violation of fundamental social values, Des Bouvrie argues that the participating community in fifth-century Greece, for instance at the Dionysia, the Athenian dramatic festival, assembled as a collective body engaging in a program of ‘prescribed sentiments.’ She identifies this program as a ‘tragic process’ that mobilized the audience into revitalizing their institutional order, the unquestionable values sustaining the oikos and preserving the polis.Des Bouvrie’s novel, not to say revolutionary, and explicitly ‘anthropological’ approach, consists in focusing primarily on the ‘tragic workings’ of Attic tragedy. While Euripides is singled out – with astute readings of Heracleidae, Andromache, Hecuba, Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia in Tauris and Iphigenia at Aulis on offer - the author’s earlier work on other Greektragedians suggests that these features were operating in the genre as such. For students and scholars interested in ancient Greek tragedy, this volume constitutes a remarkable contribution. It will significantly further studies of the tragic genre as well as stimulate new debate.