Add to ORKGThis essay argues that Hamlet contains three distinct strands in its exploration of the theme of human nature: Piconian optimism, coalescing around the figure of homo rationalis; a skeptical Montaignean critique of homo rationalis; and homo histrio– man the actor -- who mediates between the two. Hamlet demonstrates the various ways that theatricality, a human invention, has entered into the human world and become a powerful conditioning force within it. The play’s treatment of a theatricalized human condition addresses key issues around which the critique of traditional anthropology coheres: rationality, epistemology, temporality, language, identity, and agency
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Hamlet is such an obscure, impenetrable and nuanced writing that it has been prey to a runaway inter...
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From The Murder of Gonzago to Hamlet's pretence of madness, Hamlet is a work obsessed with acting an...
The present paper attempts to study Hamlet, the masterpiece of Shakespeare in the light of existenti...
This article deals with the metatheatrical concerns in Gregory Doran's Hamlet (2009). This film deri...
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how ...
In this paper I argue that, up to a certain extent, Shakespeare’s dramatic works partake of an anthr...
Masculinity is a concept that can be hard to grasp. It is a series of signifiers and traits that are...
In Shakespeare’s King Lear, the universe is indifferent to human values, but human values are of the...
Critical interpretations of Hamlet are largely dependent upon the cultural zeitgeist that provides t...
The charm of Hamlet over the centuries largely lies in Shakespeare’s subtle treatment of Hamlet, and...
Throughout Hamlet, the hero shows a persistent fascination with art. Daalder discusses how Hamlet's ...
Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality ...
Recent years have seen posthumanism used as a critical term in literary studies, enabling scholars t...
Hamlet is such an obscure, impenetrable and nuanced writing that it has been prey to a runaway inter...
This chapter addresses, from a particular angle, the core set of problems raised by What is the Huma...
"So far from being Shakespeare's masterpiece, the play is most certainly an artistic failure." This ...
From The Murder of Gonzago to Hamlet's pretence of madness, Hamlet is a work obsessed with acting an...
The present paper attempts to study Hamlet, the masterpiece of Shakespeare in the light of existenti...
This article deals with the metatheatrical concerns in Gregory Doran's Hamlet (2009). This film deri...