Hamlet-izing my thesis.

[kageotogi]

So I've been thinking on the Honors Thesis a little more, and I actually came up with an idea during Shakespeare (gasp!) today, between arguing with Doctor Smith about Gertrude's innocence and the whole inaction-action shindig. Basically, I would be psychoanalyzing Hamlet (this idea was reinforced when Doctor Smith actually read out a bit about Hamlet from one of Freud's publications). I'm not sure what I would say about him, but psychoanalytic criticism is one of the few things I actually enjoyed from Doctor Idris's class last year. So...

The downside to doing a Shakespeare thesis is that Doctor Smith would be my advisor, and I'm not entirely sure (a) that she likes me very much, (b) that I could put up with her obsession with Shakespeare, or (c) she'd be up for it (she's rather ill). Nonetheless, it's a topic that makes both the English major in me happy and the part of me that misses being a psych major (not that I ever really was one; I was just seriously considering it).

I googled a bit to see how do-able the topic would be, and the prospects are pretty good:

Hamlet and Oedipus Rex
Now, Mother, what's the matter?
Shakespeare in psychoanalysis

Those are only a few of the things I've found... so it's very, very do-able. What do you all think? Should I confront my fear of Doctor Smith and give this topic a shot?

Comments

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

Was the professor pushing any resources or books at you all? ^.^

[cerriorchid.livejournal.com]

i don't recall him saying any particular books, but i can ask someone in my class about it. if he has, she would have written them down. he does have a list of bibliographies that he used for the class.
m c andrews-"hamlet:revenge and the critical mirror" 9-23 (1978)
n alexander- Poison, play and a duel:a study in hamlet
r t brucher-"fantasies of violence:hamlet and the revenger's tragedy" 257-270 (1981)
p a cefalu-"damned custom..habits devil':Shakespeare's hamlet, anti-dualism, and the early modern philosophy of mind" 399-431 (2000)
m charney-style in hamlet
m charney-hamlet's fictions
anthony b. dawson-hamlet
h gatti-the renaissance drama of knowledge
philip fisher-"thinking about killing:hamlet & the paths among the passions" 43-77 (1991)
r a foakes-hamlet versus lear:cultural politics and shakespeare's art
j jump (ed)-hamlet
j lee-shakespeare's hamlet and the controversies of self
a mcGee-the elizabethan hamlet
m de grazia-"teleology, delay, and the 'old mole'" 251-67 (1999)
p mercer-hamlet and the acting of revenge
s mullaney-"mourning and misogyny:hamlet, the revenger's tragedy and the final progress of elizabeth I, 1600-1607" 139-62 (1994)
e prosser-hamlet and revenge
c c rutter-"snatched bodies:ophelia in the grave" 299-319 (1998)
j dover wilson-what happens in hamlet


hope these help you out. :)

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

*__* Squee. You're awesome.

[cerriorchid.livejournal.com]

:) i try. i'm not sure what all is about the psychological aspect though. but i hope some of it atleast helps you.

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it will. ^__^ Thank you.

[cerriorchid.livejournal.com]

you're welcome. :)