The Hamlet Doctrine is a passionate encounter with a great work of literature that continues to speak to us across centuries. It is an intellectual investigation that leads to a startling conclusion: Hamlet is a play about nothing in which Ophelia emerges as the true hero.įrom the illusion of theatre and the spectacle of statecraft to the psychological theatre of inhibition and emotion, what Hamlet makes manifest is the modern paradox of our lives: where we know, we cannot act. Reading the drama alongside writers, philosophers and psychoanalysts-Schmitt, Benjamin, Freud, Lacan, Nietzsche, Melville, and Joyce-the authors delve into the politics of the era, the play’s relationship to religion, the exigencies of desire and the incapacity to love.

In this riveting and thought-provoking re-examination, philosopher Simon Critchley and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster explore Hamlet’s continued relevance for a modern world no less troubled by existential anxieties than Elizabethan London. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Hamlet. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Everyone can quote at least six words from the play often people know many more. Hamlet - Kindle edition by Shakespeare, William. Arguably, no literary work is more familiar to us than Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy. Hamlet (Book) / Author: William Shakespeare / Editor: Hora 9780636004719 English literary criticism, English (including English as a school subject).

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