@inbook{d5b273fa88ea49919cccb266615d8082,
title = "Horatio: Loyal Friend of Hamlet and Nutshell",
abstract = "This chapter considers two modern novels as adaptations of Hamlet. Horatio: Loyal Friend of Hamlet by Richard Coen (2006), as the title suggests, presents the story from the point of view of the arch-rationalist Horatio, though even he encounters irrational emotions by falling in love. Ian McEwan{\textquoteright}s (Nutshell. Jonathan Cape, London, 2016) is an experimental novel which undoubtedly will find an enduring literary status into the future. Hamlet is copiously referenced in the novel and provides its title, {\textquoteleft}I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space […] {\textquoteright}. It is a creative rewriting of the play, drawing on the black wit in Hamlet itself, as well as on the play{\textquoteright}s emotional substructure as a murder mystery.",
author = "Robert White",
year = "2019",
month = feb,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-03795-6\_16",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030037949",
series = "Palgrave Shakespeare Studies",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "317--333",
editor = "Paul Megna and Brid Phillips and White, \{R. S. \}",
booktitle = "Hamlet and emotions",
address = "United Kingdom",
}