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Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine
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The figure of Hamlet haunts our culture like the ghost haunts Shakespeares melancholy Dane. Arguably, no literary work is more familiar to us. Everyone knows at least six words from Hamlet, and most people know many more. Yet the playShakespeares longestis more than passing strange, and it becomes even more complex when considered closely.Reading Hamlet alongside other writers, philosophers, and psychoanalystsCarl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Freud, Lacan, Nietzsche, Melville, and JoyceSimon Critchley and Jamieson Webster go in search of a particularly modern drama that is as much about ourselves as it is a product of Shakespeares imagination. They also offer a startling interpretation of the action onstage: it is structured around nothingor, in the enigmatic words of the player queen, it nothing must.From the illusion of theater and the spectacle of statecraft to the psychological interplay of inhibition and emotion, Hamlet discloses the modern paradox of our lives: how thought and action seem to pull against each other, the one annulling the possibility of the other. As a counterweight to Hamlets melancholy paralysis, Ophelia emerges as the plays true hero. In her madness, she lives the love of which Hamlet is incapable.Avoiding the customary clichs about the timelessness of the Bard, Critchley and Webster show the timely power of Hamlet to cast light on the intractable dilemmas of human existence in a world that is rotten and out of joint.
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