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    Hamlet Had an Uncle: A Comedy of Honor
    Hamlet Had an Uncle: A Comedy of Honor
    Hamlet Had an Uncle: A Comedy of Honor
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    Hamlet Had an Uncle: A Comedy of Honor

    By James Branch Cabell

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    Hamlet Had an Uncle: A Comedy of Honor is a Shakespearean satire by James Branch Cabell, first published in 1940. Cabell had incubated a Shakespeare satire for decades, and based his tale on the Saxo Grammaticus, an epic saga that recounts the story of the mythic Hamlet.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateAug 20, 2015
    ISBN9781479407040
    Hamlet Had an Uncle: A Comedy of Honor
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    James Branch Cabell

    James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American writer of escapist and fantasy fiction. Born into a wealthy family in the state of Virginia, Cabell attended the College of William and Mary, where he graduated in 1898 following a brief personal scandal. His first stories began to be published, launching a productive decade in which Cabell’s worked appeared in both Harper’s Monthly Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post. Over the next forty years, Cabell would go on to publish fifty-two books, many of them novels and short-story collections. A friend, colleague, and inspiration for such writers as Ellen Glasgow, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, and Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell is remembered as an iconoclastic pioneer of fantasy literature.

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      Cabell's darkest comedy retells the tale of Hamlet . . . and not how Shakespeare told it, but much closer to the original histories from which Shakespeare drew his tragedy.Here there is blood and crime, yes. But tragedy? In Cabell's hands, it's comedy, but dark, bile-tasting comedy. For Cabell did not like politics, and did not hold high in honor men who would war and steal in the name of . . . honor.And honor is the theme. But honor, is it present?The reader must decide.And the reader of the Biography of the Life of Manuel will see the name of an old friend, Horvendile (not Horatio), and will be confused much of the time, I'm afraid, trying to find in the character Wigerlus any similarity to Shakespeare's great tragic hero.The comedy's funniest moment is satire, though, with the antihero giving a great fireside speech on debasing the currency. It was Cabell's revenge upon FDR, whom he had the good sense not to love.

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