Hamlet

==ФЕ:  //Hamlet with Hamlet left out (Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark)// ==

Definition:
a performance or event taking place without the principal actor or central figure .

Определение:
„//Гамлет без принца Дат­ского//", т. е. что-л. лишённое самого важного, основного, самой сути.

Origin:
//Prince Hamlet// is a fictional character, the protagonist in Shakespeare 's tragedy //Hamlet//. He is the Prince of Denmark, nephew to the usurping  Claudius and son of the previous King of Denmark, Old Hamlet . Throughout the play he struggles with whether, and how, to avenge the murder of his father, and struggles with his own sanity along the way. By the end of the tragedy, //Hamlet// has caused the deaths of Polonius, Laertes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">, Claudius and his two childhood friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. He is also indirectly involved in the deaths of his love <span class="mw-redirect" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Ophelia <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"> (drowning) and of his mother Gertrude (poisoned by mistake). Hamlet himself is the final character to die in the play. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Perhaps the most straightforward view sees //Hamlet// as seeking truth in order to be certain that he is justified in carrying out the revenge called for by a ghost that claims to be the spirit of his father. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">T. S. Eliot offers a similar view of Hamlet's character in his critical essay, "//Hamlet and His Problems//" (The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism). He states, "We find Shakespeare's '//Hamlet//' not in the action, not in any quotations that we might select, so much as in an unmistakable tone...". <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Others see //Hamlet// as a person charged with a duty that he both knows and feels is right, yet is unwilling to carry out. In this view, all of his efforts to satisfy himself of Claudius' guilt, or his failure to act when he can, are evidence of this unwillingness, and //Hamlet// berates himself for his inability to carry out his task.

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Происхождение:
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">//Гамлет// (англ. //Hamlet//) — центральный персонаж <span class="mw-redirect" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">пьесы <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Шекспира «//Гамлет, принц датский//». В пьесе он является принцем Дании племянником короля Клавдия и сыном прежнего короля Гамлета. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Шекспир, оставив практически неизменной сюжетную канву Кида (с описанием Бельфоре он не был знаком), в своей трактовке сюжета намного расширил его рамки. Тема мести осталась в трагедии. Но внимание было перенесено с внешней борьбы на духовную драму героя. Мстители ранних трагедий мести были людьми энергичными, одержимыми стремлением осуществить стоявшую перед ними задачу. Их отличала порывистость и непреклонность. Они с воодушевлением выполняли кровавое дело, которое считали своим долгом. //Гамлет// Шекспира — герой совсем иного душевного склада. Его душа поражена меланхолией. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: justify;">Вы­ражение //Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark// основано на эпизоде, опи­санном В. Скоттом: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: justify;">The play-bill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of **//Hamlet//**, the character of **//the Prince of Denmark being left out//**. (Scott W. 'The Talisman', 'In­troduction). <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: justify;">Говорили, что на афише, объявлявшей о постановке трагедии „//Гамлет//", //сам принц датский// среди действующих лиц //не значился//.

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Примеры:
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: justify;">...the Catholic Church without the ab­solute dominion of the Pope might resem­ble the play of **//Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark//**. (Strachey L. 'Eminent Victo­rians', 'Cardinal Manning').