Perpetuum Mobile: Shakespeare's Perpetual Renaissance

William Shakespeare's Hamlet, following the Bible and possibly Koran, has been subject of the most and best commentary of any text in the world. This situation, documented in huge bibliographies, is so overwhelming that it can no longer in itself be commented on. Centuries of commentary have in...

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Published inShakespearean Genealogies of Power pp. 7 - 15
Main Author Haverkamp, Anselm
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 2011
Edition1
Subjects
Individuum Ineffabile
Functional Ratio
Secretary Of State
Ancient Rome
Richard III
Modern Individuum
Vice Versa
Confers
Translatio Imperii
Walk On The Wild Side
Perpetuum Mobile
Shakespeare's Stage
Political Theology II
Marc Shell
Double Floor
Densest
Richard II
Dionysian Origin
Rahel Varnhagen
Plenitudo Potestatis
Representative Publicity
Shakespeare's Theater
English Romantic Imagination
Reflective Genre
Shakespeare's Winter's Tale
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Summary:William Shakespeare's Hamlet, following the Bible and possibly Koran, has been subject of the most and best commentary of any text in the world. This situation, documented in huge bibliographies, is so overwhelming that it can no longer in itself be commented on. Centuries of commentary have inevitably touched upon what they could neither conceive of nor over time not conceive of, but were all too willing to leave alone, ungrasped. Friedrich Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy had re-inscribed the effect, Hamlet's modern intensification of the tragic, into the form of Dionysian origin of ancient tragedy. Claudius' irreproachable and statesmanly attitude has been constantly noted as a reaction to Hamlet's excessive grieving, but also as an attempt by Claudius to console his nephew over the loss of the immediate succession, thereby simultaneously recognizing his grief and attempting to allay his concrete political loss.
ISBN:0415593441
9780415593458
041559345X
9780415593441
DOI:10.4324/9780203840283-2