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HAMLET
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Hamlet. Act ,5C.11,
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HECUBA
1HE IRRUPTION OF TIME INTO PLAY
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This translation first published in the United States of America by Plutarch Press, Corvallis, Oregon, in 2006. Complete English translation of 'Hamlet oder Hecuba: Der Einbruch der Zeit in das Spiel' by Carl Schmitt, originally published in 1956 by Eugen Diederichs Verlag, OusseldorfKOln, Germany. Copyright in the German text 1985 by J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart, Germany. CQPyright in this English translation, Notes and Postface 2006 by Simona DraglUci.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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HAMLET OR HECUBA
Preface Introduction The Taboo of the Queen The Character of the Avenger The Source of the Tragic The Poet's Freedom of Invention Play and the Tragic The Play within the Play: Hamlet or Hecuba The Incompatibility of the Tragic with Invention The Result Appendix I;
Hamlet
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Appendix II; On the Barbaric Character of Shakespeare's Drama: of The Origin of the German Tragic
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