Literary influence of Hamlet a production of "Hamlet" at its core but also dwells on parallels between the Ghost and Wilhelm Meister's dead father. In the early 1850s, in "", Herman Melville focuses on a Hamlet-like character's long development as a writer. Ten years later, Dickens' "Great Expectations" contains many Hamlet-like plot elements: it is driven by revenge actions, contains ghost-like characters (Abel Magwitch and Miss Havisham), and focuses on the hero's guilt. Academic Alexander Welsh notes that "Great Expectations" is an "autobiographical novel" and "anticipates psychoanalytic readings of "Hamlet" itself". About the same time, George Eliot's "The Mill on the Floss" was published,
Kim Dickens Cards". In film, she co-starred in "Footloose" (2011) and "At Any Price" (2012). In 2014, she had a major supporting role as Detective Rhonda Boney in the psychological thriller film "Gone Girl", directed by David Fincher, and in 2016, co-starred as the lead character's mother in Tim Burton's film "Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children". In 2015, Dickens began playing Madison Clark in "The Walking Dead" companion series, "Fear the Walking Dead". The series premiered on AMC on August 23, 2015. Kim Dickens Kimberly Jan Dickens (born June 18, 1965) is an American actress. Her film debut was a supporting