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Artless Deaths in Hamlet: The Play as Danse Macabre

Karremann, Isabel

Springer 2022

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  • Título:
    Artless Deaths in Hamlet: The Play as Danse Macabre
  • Autor: Karremann, Isabel
  • Assuntos: English & Old English literatures ; English Department ; Shakespeare, Hamlet, ars moriendi, ars memoria, Dance of Death
  • Notas: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/226048/
    10.1007/978-3-030-88490-1_14
    Karremann, Isabel (2022). Artless Deaths in Hamlet: The Play as Danse Macabre. In: Engel, William; Williams, Grant. The Shakespearean Death Arts : Hamlet Among the Tombs. Cham: Springer, 281-306.
    eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88490-1
  • Descrição: Hamlet registers both the survival of the medieval ars moriendi and their changed status in post-Reformation England. The ghost of Hamlet’s father evokes the Catholic good death that consists in the proper ritual forms of communion, confession, and extreme unction (1.5.77). The counter-image to this unprepared for and therefore bad death is staged with Claudius at prayer (3.3.85–86). Yet, what looks like a good death at first glance is not. What if in prayer one’s “thoughts remain below” (3.3.97)? These two moments in Hamlet raise the question of how to prepare properly for death. They evoke the Christian death arts as an important frame of reference for understanding the seemingly gratuitous deaths, which would have been understood by Shakespeare’s audience as a lesson about both morality and mortality. This frame is provided more specifically by the danse macabre, popularized as a pictorial and literary theme in late-medieval Europe, in which human figures “dance” with a figure of death, often without recognizing that their final moment has come and therefore they die a sudden death, unprepared, and unrepentant of their sins: a mors improvisa like the deaths of Hamlet Senior and Claudius.
  • Editor: Springer
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2022
  • Idioma: Inglês
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