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Specters of Horatio
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In this paper, the authors show that social class in Hamlet is not a pre-existing structure that becomes unearthed and located in the empirical truth of economic fact, but instead, class is a never-ending, unstable process of making social distinctions characteristic of the emergent public sphere of the seventeenth century.Abstract:
Throughout Hamlet , Horatio is a figure privileged to interpret, and this privilege emerges in the doubled-edged spectrality of his social position. The justness of his interpretive authority ultimately depends on a class position that does not appear to be a class position at all. Social class in Hamlet consequently is not a pre-existing structure that becomes unearthed and located in the empirical truth of economic fact. Instead, class is a never-ending, unstable process of making social distinctions characteristic of the emergent public sphere of the seventeenth century. Social class in the play always deconstructs itself.read more
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Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama
Nancy Bunker,Wendy Wall +1 more
TL;DR: In the nations' kitchen as discussed by the authors, the erotics of milk and live food, or, ingesting early modern Englishness, were discussed in domestic drama, with a focus on domestic service, taste, and violence.
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Fellow Students: Hamlet, Horatio, and the Early Modern University
TL;DR: In this paper, the friendship between Prince Hamlet and the poor scholar Horatio, both students at the University of Wittenberg, is treated as emblematic of the uneasy interpenetration of nobility and the clerical culture of the universities in sixteenth-century England.
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Hamlet's Alchemy: Transubstantiation, Modernity, Belief
TL;DR: The history of disputes over the physics of transubstantiation in order to dispute the historicity of skepticism that is typically applied to the treatment of the Eucharist in Hamlet can be found in this article.
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Horatio’s Philosophy in Hamlet
TL;DR: In this paper, a poet as ingenious as profound states that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy, and this sentiment is in the main applicable also to the philosophy of our own day; and, with a slight modification, I shall be ready to adopt it as my own.
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