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HoP 426 - A Face Without a Heart - Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Individualism

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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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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