Detecting the Dane: re-creating Shakespearian genre in A level literature
There is a well-established practice in schools in England of ‘retro-fitting’ genre to Shakespeare’s plays, namely, considering them within a genre which did not exist at the time of writing. This article explores a contemporary example: Hamlet studied as crime writing. The justification for studyin...
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Oxford University Press
2019
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