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Art as Knowledge? Interpreting Fiction (through Hamlet) to Convey…

- - - - "In a first creative performance, an author, playwright, painter or sculptor captures aspects of a human life and draws them together into the whole of a novel, play a statue, or even a historical account of the past. Created in order to be displayed, read, or performed, artwork is the most conscious expression of what human understanding always entails: the interpretative integration of life's details into a meaningful whole," (Zimmermann, p. 54-55).
        
        Shakespeare writes Hamlet!
    - - Reading Hamlet for class
      - Watching a production of Hamlet
      - Acting in a production of Hamlet
  - - - Laertes (to Ophelia): "O, fear me not."
        Interpretations:
        
        Contemporary theater-goer at the Globe: Ophelia does not need to worry about him.
        
        Modern theater-goer: Why would she be afraid of her brother?
        (Zimmermann, p. 59)
    - - First Folio or Quarto 1 or Quarto 2?
  - - - "To die- to sleep,
        No more; and by a sleep to say we end,
        The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
        That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
        Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep
        To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
        For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
        When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
        Must give us pause—there's the respect
        That makes calamity of so long life," (Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1).