Countering the Machiavellian: Power, Intrigue, and Resistance in the Soliloquies of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Taking as a framework the theory of power as "domination over," a theory propounded by social critics such as Machiavelli (1961), Hobbes (1968), Foucault (1980), Weber (1986), and Bordieu (1994), this paper attempts to decipher the dilemma evident in the soliloquies of Shakespeare's Hamlet as the re...
| Publicado en: | IUP Journal of English Studies Vol. 12; no. 4; pp. 52 - 60 |
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