The Hamlet (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Power, personal or social, Tricks, Sex or sexuality, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Rural or country life, Good and evil, Greed, Folklore
- Locales: Yoknapatawpha County (fictive)
Places Discussed
Yoknapatawpha County (YOK-nuh-puh-TAW-fuh). County in Mississippi that resembles the region in northern Mississippi where Faulkner spent most of his life. Faulkner regarded his fictitious county (of which he called himself “sole owner and proprietor”) as a microcosm of the post-Civil War South. It is suffering through the disastrous legacy of slavery and, in a larger sense, is a microcosm of the entire world, with its lust, greed, exploitation, chicanery, violence, and endless struggle for existence.
Hamlet. Unnamed village of about three dozen...
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