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Hamlet’s Hysterical Strategy
Histeryczna strategia Hamleta

Author(s): Bartosz Frąckowiak
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
Keywords: Theatre; Performing Arts; Theatre Theory

Summary/Abstract: Frąckowiak analyses a play by Krzysztof Warlikowski, using the concepts of Lacanian psychoanalysis on the issue of hysteria. In the actions of the play’s protagonist he sees an enactment of the strategy of a hysteric, which involves revealing the falsehoods of one’s interlocutors (in their possession, for instance, of a coherent identity). The author proves his thesis with an analysis of the scene in which Hamlet enters his mother’s bedroom naked.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 102
  • Page Range: 85-87
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Polish
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