“I Knew Him, Horatio”: Shakespeare’s Beliefs, Early Textual Editing, and Nineteenth-Century Phrenology

As Hamlet gazes into Yorick’s skull, he reassembles the quirks of the jester’s personhood and also imagines a self that he used to be, in relation to Yorick. Partially through the lens of Hamlet, characterized by A.C. Bradley as Shakespeare’s most “religious” play, this essay interrogates how severa...

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Published in:Religions (Basel, Switzerland ) Switzerland ), 2019-04, Vol.10 (4), p.236
Main Author: Hampton, Bryan Adams
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
19th century
Biographies
C.M. Ingleby
Christianity
Editing
Hamlet
phrenology
Religion
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Shakespeare’s religion
Shakespeare’s skull
textual-editing
Victorian period
Yorick
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