"Textual Identity and Adaptive Revision: Editing Adaptation as a Fluid Text" https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc1972/ Author: Bryant, John. Type: Book Chapter Year: 2013 Publication Information: Bruhn, Adaptation Studies: New Challenges, New Directions, 47–67. : Bruhn, Adaptation Studies: New Challenges, New Directions Annotation: Discusses how Melville re-writes elements of Hamlet in Moby Dick. Contends that Melville "pay[s] homage to Shakespeare" and that his version is "not at all a retelling of Hamlet but a re-writing and a mingling of two 'textual identities.'" Language: English Persons: Bruhn, Jorgen; Gjelsvik, Anne; Hanssen, Eirik Frisvold; Melville, Herman Tags: Hamlet, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Shakespeare as Influence, Translations and Adaptations WSB Update: Spring 2015 WSB Record Number: bbbc1972