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\nCalderwood,James L.  \nTo be and not to be.  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \n1.Shakespeare,William,1564-1616.Hamlet.  \n2.Negation (Logic)in literature.1.Title.  \nII.Title:Metadrama in Hamlet.PR₂807.C241983822.3'382-22214ISBN o-231-05628-1ISBN o-231-05629-X(pbk.)  \nColumbia University PressNew York Guildford,Surrey  \nCopyright ◎1983 Columbia University PressAll rights reservedPrinted in the United States of America  \nClothbound editions of Columbia University Press books are Smyth-sewn  \nand printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper.  \nFOR STUART AND IAN  \nTo thee no star be dark  \nCONTENTS  \nPreface  \nxi  \nPrologue  \nPART 1.HAMLET:THE NAME OF ACTION  \n1.Names and Meanings  \nM7  \n2.Names and Identities  \n3.Fortinbras as Self and Son12  \n4.Laertes as Son15  \n18  \n5.Defnition by Action  \n6.Tmetic Structure22  \n26  \n7.Naming Hamlet and Hamlet:Concrete Universal  \n8.Hamlet as Character/Actor  \n30344248  \n9.“This is I,Hamlet,the Dane!”  \n10.Defnition by Action:Double Revenge  \n11.Tmetic Unions  \nPART Ⅱ.To BE AND Not To BE:THE RANGE OFNEGATION IN HAMLET  \n12.Verbal Presence:Conceptual Absence  \n535964  \n13.Uncreations  \n14.Amleth and Metaphor  \nCoNTENTS  \n67  \n15.Erasures,Poison,and Nothing  \n16.Silence,Soliloquy,Court Speech,Noise  \n38  \n17.At the Center:Wordplay as Negation and Erasure  \n85  \n18.Wordplay,Madplay,Inner-Play  \n19.Praying King,Intruding Fool  \n87  \n20.Hamlet as Pun91  \n21.The Life of Death  \n97  \n22.Beyond Negation103  \nPART HI.ENDS AND MEANS:ARTISTIC ARREST ANDFUNCTIONAL ERASURE  \n23.Middlemen113  \n24.Disappearing Messengers:Claudio and Horatio  \n117  \n25.Self-Erasing Messengers:Go-Betweens and Get-Betweens  \n123  \n26.Clearing the Middle127  \n27.Filling the Middle130  \n28.Diachronic Suicide  \n133  \n29.Theatricide:Drama as Function  \n140  \n30.Naming of Delay/Naming as Delay  \n144  \n31.Forms of Arrest:Scene,Inset,Soliloquy  \n149  \n32.Rewording the Matter  \n160  \n33.Theater as Go-Between  \n166  \n176  \n34.“What Warlike Noise Is This?”  \n182  \n35.“To Tell My Story”  \n185  \n36.A Breathing Space  \nEPILOGUE:PRESENCE AND ABSENCE189NOTES197INDEX219  \n## PREFACE\n\nPART OF the frst chapter of this book appeared as an article called“Hamlet:The Name of Action”in Modern Language Quarterly(Decem-ber 1978);I am grateful to William H.Matchett,editor and good friend,for permission to reprint it here in revised and enlarged form.I am alsograteful to my colleagues Murray Krieger,Harold E.Toliver,and JamesMcMichael for reading and commenting on various parts of the manu-script,and to William P.Germano,Assistant Executive Editor at Co-lumbia University Press,for ushering it so expeditiously into print.  \nI should perhaps apologize for the unusual length of the chapters,which seem to expand exponentially,like men in buckram,as the bookproceeds and my plight grows more desperate.To render the turns ofargument somewhat clearer I have supplied subtitles to the different sec-tions and have periodically glanced backward,not merely to see,as thelate Satchel Paige would say,if something were gaining on me,but todiscover where I have been and to chart my location for the reader.Forconvenience I have often referred to familiar scenes and to episodes withinscenes descriptively,following the practice of Hary Levin in The Ques-tion of Hamlet(New York:Oxford University Press,1959).The descrip-tive title and lineation of these “scenes”is as follows,according to thetext I am using—that of David Bevington in The Complete Works ofShakespeare,3d edition(Glenview,II.:Scott,Foresman,198o):  \nCouncil Scene  \n1.2.1-128  \nNunnery Scene  \n3.1.89-191  \nPREFACE  \nGraveyard Scene  \nAnd since critics sometimes disagree about which of Hamlet's speechesare soliloquies,let me record my line-up here:  \nFirst SoliloquySecond SoliloquyThird SoliloquyFourth SoliloquyFifth SoliloquySixth 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HAMLET: THE NAME OF ACTION\n## Names and Meanings\n## PART Ⅱ. To BE AND Not To BE: THE RANGE OF NEGATION IN HAMLET\n## Verbal Presence: Conceptual Absence\n## PART HI. ENDS AND MEANS: ARTISTIC ARREST AND FUNCTIONAL ERASURE\n## Middlemen\n## EPILOGUE: PRESENCE AND ABSENCE\n## Notes\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What central themes does the book examine in Hamlet?\",\"answer\":\"The book examines negation and metadrama in Hamlet, tracing how conceptual absence, erasure, silence, and wordplay operate within both language and theatrical form.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author organize the analysis across the book?\",\"answer\":\"The study is divided into multiple parts, including an initial focus on “the name of action,” followed by a range-of-negation approach, and then ends and means concerning artistic arrest and functional erasure.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the preface emphasize subtitles and backward referencing?\",\"answer\":\"The preface explains that subtitles and periodic backward glances are added to make the turns of argument clearer and to help chart the reader’s location through long, expanding chapters.\"}]","To BE AND Not To BE - Negation and Metadrama in Hamlet | PDF",1791672322,370]