FROM SHAKESPEARE TO KIERKEGAARD: AN EXISTENTIAL READING OF HAMLET

Volume: 2 Number: 2 July 1, 2001
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FROM SHAKESPEARE TO KIERKEGAARD: AN EXISTENTIAL READING OF HAMLET

Abstract

Shakespeare's Hamlet yields conveniently to an existential reading. Hamlet may be seen as the prototype of the modern European man who struggles in a "rotten" world. In Denmark, he finds himself in a Sartrean "void". As he struggles to overcome his "nausea" by trying to unmask men, strip them of their fine appearances and show them in their true nature, Hamlet passes through the three stages of life described by Kierkegaard: the aesthetic, the ethical and the religious. Since these stages are in contradiction with one another, there is a basic choice, an "either/or" facing man. Hamlet's actions or non-actions in the play can be studied within the framework of this context.

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  1. KIERKEGAARD, S. (1992). Either / Or: A Fragment of Life, Ed. Victor Eremita, London: Penguin Books.
  2. SENECA, L.A. (1958). Moral Essays, Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press.
  3. SHAKESPEARE, W. (1983). Hamlet, Ed. TJ.B. Spencer, NewYork: Penguin Books.

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Aslı Tekinay This is me

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July 1, 2001

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Year 2001 Volume: 2 Number: 2

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Tekinay, A. (2001). FROM SHAKESPEARE TO KIERKEGAARD: AN EXISTENTIAL READING OF HAMLET. Doğuş Üniversitesi Dergisi, 2(2), 115-124. https://izlik.org/JA68YX55GR
AMA
1.Tekinay A. FROM SHAKESPEARE TO KIERKEGAARD: AN EXISTENTIAL READING OF HAMLET. Doğuş Üniversitesi Dergisi. 2001;2(2):115-124. https://izlik.org/JA68YX55GR
Chicago
Tekinay, Aslı. 2001. “FROM SHAKESPEARE TO KIERKEGAARD: AN EXISTENTIAL READING OF HAMLET”. Doğuş Üniversitesi Dergisi 2 (2): 115-24. https://izlik.org/JA68YX55GR.
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Tekinay A (July 1, 2001) FROM SHAKESPEARE TO KIERKEGAARD: AN EXISTENTIAL READING OF HAMLET. Doğuş Üniversitesi Dergisi 2 2 115–124.
IEEE
[1]A. Tekinay, “FROM SHAKESPEARE TO KIERKEGAARD: AN EXISTENTIAL READING OF HAMLET”, Doğuş Üniversitesi Dergisi, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 115–124, July 2001, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA68YX55GR
ISNAD
Tekinay, Aslı. “FROM SHAKESPEARE TO KIERKEGAARD: AN EXISTENTIAL READING OF HAMLET”. Doğuş Üniversitesi Dergisi 2/2 (July 1, 2001): 115-124. https://izlik.org/JA68YX55GR.
JAMA
1.Tekinay A. FROM SHAKESPEARE TO KIERKEGAARD: AN EXISTENTIAL READING OF HAMLET. Doğuş Üniversitesi Dergisi. 2001;2:115–124.
MLA
Tekinay, Aslı. “FROM SHAKESPEARE TO KIERKEGAARD: AN EXISTENTIAL READING OF HAMLET”. Doğuş Üniversitesi Dergisi, vol. 2, no. 2, July 2001, pp. 115-24, https://izlik.org/JA68YX55GR.
Vancouver
1.Aslı Tekinay. FROM SHAKESPEARE TO KIERKEGAARD: AN EXISTENTIAL READING OF HAMLET. Doğuş Üniversitesi Dergisi [Internet]. 2001 Jul. 1;2(2):115-24. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA68YX55GR