HAMLET: CRITICAL ESSAYS

About the Book

Unlike many traditional books on Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, this book explores themes and issues which have received very little or no critical attention but they are crucial in understanding the play as a whole. Though in every literary period great philosophers and critics inevitably commented on the play, a host of other issues remained unexplored. During the last four centuries, theories have surely enhanced the artistic taste of the play but taken the readers away from the text of the play. Hence book strikes a balance between the central character of Hamlet and the important technical aspects of the play. These themes include art, diplomacy and international relation, natural and unnatural, evolution of conflict, contrast and parallelism, quest for certain knowledge and Marxism. Though psychoanalysis figures time and again in this book, it offers new dimensions of characters and events. The ideas contained in this book are original and the insightful. The language is simple and lucid and hence the book is pretty useful to students, teachers, research scholars and amateurs and common readers who wish to appreciate the play in a new light. Its strength lies in that it helps students and researchers write coherent critical essays on a divergent themes and issues that repeatedly figure up in the play. It beckons the readers to reinterpret the great tragedy by reading it through contexts.

About the Author

Dr. D. S. Salunke is Assistant Professor at M. S. P. Mandal’s Vinayakrao Patil College, Vaijapur, Aurangabad. He has completed his doctoral research on ‘Spirituality in the Select works of Sri Aurobindo: A Critical Study” from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad. He has also completed the University Grants Commission funded minor research project on “Eco-criticism and Primitivism: A Critical Study”. His areas of interest include Indian English Literature, Criticism and British literature. He is the recipient of prestigious U. G. C Research Award 2014:16 under which he is working on a two year research project “Conceptualizing the Vision of Dream India in the Select Works of Sri Aurobindo, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru and Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. He has contributed 10 research articles in international journals