Hamlet: Language and Writing

by Dympna Callaghan

This lively and informative guide reveals Hamlet as marking a turning point in Shakespeare's use of language and dramatic form as well as addressing the key problem at the play's Hamlet's inaction. It also looks at recent critical approaches to the play and its theatre history, including the recent David Tennant / RSC Hamlet on both stage and TV screen.

Genres: Shakespeare

232 pages, Paperback

First published November 6, 2014

About the author

Dr. Dympna C. Callaghan is Professor of English at Syracuse University. Her expertise is in the playwrights and poets of the English Renaissance. She was President of the Shakespeare Association of America in 2012-13.

Callaghan has held fellowships at the Folger, Huntington, and Newberry Libraries, at the Getty Research Centrer in Los Angeles, and at the Bogliasco Center for Arts and Humanities in Liguria, Italy. She is a member of the editorial team of A/S/I/A, the Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive and and co-editor of the Palgrave Shakespeare book series.