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Hegel's Relationship to Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth

Hegel's Relationship to Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth

Salter, Michael Geoffrey

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

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ISBN10: 3032094453
ISBN13: 9783032094452
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 3 2026
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.17 Width: 5.96 Depth: 8.56
Language: English

This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout his academic career, responded to the challenges of extracting deep philosophical significance and previously unnoticed implications from this playwright's tragedies, especially Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear. More specifically, it addresses how Hegel interprets the contrast between the character Hamlet, as the first truly modern individual, with Macbeth, who was rooted in a superstitious mindset regarding witches' prophecies of his fate and the supernatural more generally. This contrast, Hegel argues, illustrates the transition from the ideological characteristic of a feudal social order to an early modern one, while illustrating the inner tensions and contradictions of the latter's extreme individualism with which we continue to grapple in today's world.

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