Il rito di Amleto

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Campo DC	Valore
dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_17497
dc.contributor.author	Fincardi Marco
dc.title	Il rito di Amleto
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	In the tragedy, Hamlet is a crown prince deprived of the succession to his deceased father. The king was poisoned by his brother, who succeeded him on the throne and in the queen dowager’s conjugal bed. It was an ancient custom to mock scandalous remarriages with a skimmington, but in the courts where Shakespeare performed this folkloric humiliation of a sovereign, however usurping, was unthinkable. Loved and supported by the people, Hamlet, pretending to be crazy, then gets help from actors to stage a tragedy that reveals the betrayal. In the age of absolutism, the court theater assumed the functions performed in the past by a plebeian ritual.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi di archivistica, bibliografia, paleografia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-10-23
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-05-22
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-733-3/il-rito-di-amleto/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-727-2/014
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9875
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9093
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-733-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-727-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Elizabethan theatre
dc.subject	Honour
dc.subject	Madness in Hamlet
dc.subject	Regicide
dc.subject	Reporting a scandal
dc.subject	Rite of mockery
dc.subject	Shakespeare
dc.subject	Skimmington
dc.subject	Usurpation of the throne
dc.subject	Uxoricide

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Il rito di Amleto

Marco Fincardi Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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In the tragedy, Hamlet is a crown prince deprived of the succession to his deceased father. The king was poisoned by his brother, who succeeded him on the throne and in the queen dowager’s conjugal bed. It was an ancient custom to mock scandalous remarriages with a skimmington, but in the courts where Shakespeare performed this folkloric humiliation of a sovereign, however usurping, was unthinkable. Loved and supported by the people, Hamlet, pretending to be crazy, then gets help from actors to stage a tragedy that reveals the betrayal. In the age of absolutism, the court theater assumed the functions performed in the past by a plebeian ritual.

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23 Ottobre 2023

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22 Maggio 2023

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978-88-6969-733-3

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978-88-6969-727-2

Keywords: Regicide • Honour • Skimmington • Madness in Hamlet • Shakespeare • Reporting a scandal • Rite of mockery • Usurpation of the throne • Elizabethan theatre • Uxoricide

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-727-2/014

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