How painters “translated” Hamlet
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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7968.2015v35n1p86Abstract
Literary texts have always offered rich terrains for “translations” into other semiotic systems. Shakespeare’s plays are not exceptions and artists are semiotically translating his works into the visual arts, predominantly to painting. Using Benton & Butchers’s terminology to classify paintings based on Shakespeare’s plays, this paper analyses three pictures based on Hamlet. In addition Daniel Maclise’s “The play scene” and Edward Austin Abbey’s “Hamlet” will be compared in order to show that each work “translates” in its own way the idea of guilt in Gertrude.
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