Kathryn Prince, 'Memory, Action and Emotion in Hamlet'

Kathryn Prince is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Ottawa. She has published widely on Shakespeare in performance from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and was an Early Career Visiting Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions in 2015. Her current work focuses on the practice of emotions in early modern drama. This paper was delivered at a conference on ‘Hamlet and Emotion: Then and Now’ at The University of Western Australia on 10 April 2017. In order to illuminate the myriad intersections of memory, action and emotion in Hamlet, it compares multiple texts and performances, drawing on theories about acting techniques, textual transmission, action analysis and emotions as a practice.