Taking stock of a number of recent studies of the refashioning of death and of memory in Renaissance Tragedy, as well as of Hamlet's inscriptions of contemporary history, my paper examines cultural anxieties about the Stuarts succession and about death by plague, which coalesce in the disjointment of the revenge pattern and the collapse of death's meanings. The revenge tragedy foregrounds the issue of memory while pushing in the background redemptive deeds. Focussing on questionability and on disjointment as on the main themes of Hamlet, cultural analysis and close reading allow us to specify the incompleteness of the refashioning of death, of revenge and of memory. Instead of tying or untying a knot of meanings, Hamlet leaves loose ends that subsequent mythologizing has taken hold of.
Il saggio analizza il contributo offerto dall’Amleto shakespeariano al processo di risignificazione della morte, del ricordo e della vendetta nel contesto della revenge tragedy elisabettiana e giacomiana e in relazione ai discorsi dell’immaginario culturale inglese. Essi connettono la ingestibilità culturale dei significati della morte alle oscure e complesse vicende della successione monarchica degli Stuart sintomaticamente e spaventosamente intrecciate con la quotidiana esposizione alla brutalità e imprevedibilità del morire nelle epidemie di peste bubbonica. Una lettura orientata in senso decostruzionista consente di riconoscere in alcuni segmenti dell’Amleto i luoghi di straordinaria condensazione dei significati culturalmente contraddittori, e qui esposti nella loro indecidibilità, assegnati alla morte e al ricordo, nonché la loro prevaricazione rispetto all’ideologia stabilizzante e redentiva del genere della revenge tragedy.
(2002). Hamlet and the revenge of memory [journal article - articolo]. In LINGUISTICA E FILOLOGIA. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/273
Hamlet and the revenge of memory
MARZOLA, Maria Alessandra
2002-01-01
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Taking stock of a number of recent studies of the refashioning of death and of memory in Renaissance Tragedy, as well as of Hamlet's inscriptions of contemporary history, my paper examines cultural anxieties about the Stuarts succession and about death by plague, which coalesce in the disjointment of the revenge pattern and the collapse of death's meanings. The revenge tragedy foregrounds the issue of memory while pushing in the background redemptive deeds. Focussing on questionability and on disjointment as on the main themes of Hamlet, cultural analysis and close reading allow us to specify the incompleteness of the refashioning of death, of revenge and of memory. Instead of tying or untying a knot of meanings, Hamlet leaves loose ends that subsequent mythologizing has taken hold of.File | Dimensione del file | Formato | |
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