Hamlet – A Never-Ending Story
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https://doi.org/10.4312/an.54.1-2.33-55Keywords:
Shakespeare, Hamlet, revenge, modern subject, reformation discourse, meta-drama, manipulation of perspective, never-ending narrative loopAbstract
This article fuses a survey of the play’s most important standard interpretations with those aspects which may be considered particularly fascinating about this text: the conflict of England’s catholic past with the rise of protestant culture in the early modern period; the meta-dramatic dimension of the play; the theatricality of Renaissance court life; the play’s reflection of the emerging modern subject triggered off by the rise of reformation discourse. To elucidate some aspects which tend to be overlooked in the scholarly discussion of Hamlet, the article will bring two important topics into focus: the courtly discovery of perspective and the dying Hamlet’s request to tell his story to the afterworld at the end of the play.
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