2015
DOI: 10.7227/ce.87.1.5
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France and the Norman Lamord in Hamlet

Abstract: The climactic duel of Shakespeare's Hamlet culminates a growing pattern of sympathy between Hamlet's madness and the madness of the Francophilic duel with rapiers. On one level, the play operates as a sustained criticism of the duel of honour as it existed in England at the turn of the seventeenth century, and also of the desire for revenge and recompense that drove it. Hamlet's mental decline is correlated to an increasing sympathy with the rapier, and it is only by breaking this sympathy and returning to chi… Show more

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