(Re-Post) Essay Chat #20 – Hamlet: The Prince or the Poem? (Sarah Waters)

IN THIS REPEAT - Essay chat about an essay Lewis wrote on Hamlet. Dr. Sarah Waters shares her familiarity with Shakespeare to help understand this shorter work. 

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"Hamlet: The Prince or the Poem?" is an essay from the academic side of C.S. Lewis. However, even if you are less interested in this type of material, you will still find some useful information from what he discusses.
This is part of an occasional podcast series of "essay chats." Dr. Sarah Waters speaks with William O'Flaherty about the essay. Currently, Sarah is an honorary junior research fellow at the University of Buckingham.
While this essay was first given as a talk in 1938, it was also a lecture he gave in 1942 at the Annual Shakespeare Lecture of the British Academy. Currently, it can be best found in Selected Literary Essays. As with other "essay chats," the purpose of focusing on a single essay is to encourage you to read (or re-read) it and other essays by him that are often neglected.

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• Read "Hamlet: The Prince or the Poem?" essay FREE online
• Purchase the essay in The Selected Literary Essays
• OTHER ESSAYS MENTIONED: 
• "Variations in Shakespeare and Others" (found in the same book)
• "On Three Ways of Writing for Children" (found in On Stories)
• LISTEN to an Essay Chat on "On Three Ways of Writing for Children"
• Hear OTHER Essay Chats - Here is a Master List of All of Them
• OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED:
• English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (AKA Poetry and Prose in the Sixteenth Century)
• An Experiment in Criticism
• Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

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