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Publication details [#2396]

Delabastita, Dirk. 1993. Hamlet in the Netherlands in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: the complexities of the history of Shakespeare's reception. In Delabastita, Dirk and Lieven D'hulst, eds. European Shakespeares: translating Shakespeare in the Romantic Age. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 219–233.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Keywords
18th century | 19th century | historical approach=historiography=history | reception | theatre
Source language
English
Target language
Dutch
Person as a subject
Shakespeare, William
Title as subject
Hamlet

Abstract

This paper sets out to investigate certain aspects of the early reception of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the Low Countries and attempts to correlate these with some hypotheses concerning the functional role of Shakespeare in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century theatrical and literary life.
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