1. Hamlet and the Art of Revenge A Text Set Analysis of the Play Within the Play

2. “Seemingly endless retelling and adaptations by others” (Thomas and Taylor, 74).

3. “….the possibility that literary adaptations are at once cinema and literature” (Leitch, 63). “The notion that adaptations ought to be faithful to their ostensible source texts” (Leitch, 64).

4. Adaptation vs. Appropriation Adaptation “Signals a relationship between the original source text and it’s original” (Sanders, 26). Appropriation

5. A little bit of both…

6. The Play Within the Play And Revenge

7. “The Mousetrap” “The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King"

8. Revenge: initiated by the play, executed by an amateur “But am I Pigeon-livered and lack gall”

9. What’s significant about the “Mousetrap”?

10. “Rich Iconographical Associations” Title of the play within a play is a “symbolic microcosm” of the entire play Commonly used symbol Mousetrap connotations gluttony corruption and dirtiness Augustinian conception of the mousetrap Saint Augustin – the cross as a mousetrap on which the devil was ensnared

11. What else does culture tell us, dawg? Deeper meaning in some lines Hamlet’s vagueness contributes to his insanity Yet he actually tells us exactly what he means more than the modern audience might think This is through puns “Get thee to a nunn'ry” (III, i, 120). Double-entendre Nunnery was slang for ‘brothel’ in Elizabethan England