
HoP 426 - A Face Without a Heart - Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Individualism
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
Hamlet's Treatment of Individualism
Hamlet is deeply invested in the idea that people should be authentic, says David Bianculli. The character's abiding concern is to be like himself, if he could only figure out how," writes BiancullI. In general, Shakespeare is on this reading, a fashioner of narrative selves and master improviser., Biancull I say.
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