THE STORY: Young Fortinbras, a modern man of action, enters during the last scene of Hamlet only

The theory considers human behavior in terms of functional equilibrium between the stable properties of the mind, independent from the pressures of the sociocultural environment and the immediate situational context. What we call "character" thus denotes an autonomous configuration of psychological elements, which remains stable despite the changing external circumstances.

The purpose of this book is to examine recent productions of Shakespeare on stage and film and to lay out some interpretive guidelines for responding to the scripts as recreated in these two very different formats and within the conflicted environment of shifting critical paradigms. The two traditions - Shakespeare on stage and Shakespeare on film - have experienced a midair collision with postmodernism. The results are beginning to be chronicled.

Prefaces literary, psychological, and theatrical studies of Shakespeare's celebrated tragedy with a discussion of its sources and evolution.

Exploring man's relation to his universe and the way in which it seeks to postulate a moral order, this title identifies Shakespeare's development of this concept and the ways in which he presented it as a growth in moral vision.