On William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
New Books in Western European Studies
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Hamlet - A Play That Offers the Tension of Solipsism
Hamlet is a play that comes to people's minds when they are unburdening themselves. Tristram Shandy, which is the mad autobiography of somebody who's obsessed with his parents sex life and various other things. Ian McEwen has published Nutsher or which is Hamlet all done as a soliloquy by Hamlet when he's still an embryo. It's a very useful text for opening things up. But if you decide that what matters, you're not going to talk about social relations.
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