<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>As a contribution to the discussion of Shakespeare’s “appropriability” (Stanley Cavell), this paper examines some aspects of the cultural position of <italic>Hamlet</italic> on the Jacobean entertainment market, as they are indicated in Ben Jonson’s comedy <italic>Bartholomew Fair</italic> (1614). The metatheatrical features of <italic>Bartholomew Fair</italic> may be said to measure the play’s resistance against appropriating the unique and problematic aspects of <italic>Hamlet</italic>, such as the Ghost or The Mousetrap. These are deconstructed in Jonson’s comedy, which anticipates the Enlightenment views of the social functioning of theatre as a “moral institution”.</p></abstract>

As a contribution to the discussion of Shakespeare’s “appropriability” (Stanley Cavell), this paper examines some aspects of the cultural position of Hamlet on the Jacobean entertainment market, as they are indicated in Ben Jonson’s comedy Bartholomew Fair (1614). The metatheatrical features of Bartholomew Fair may be said to measure the play’s resistance against appropriating the unique and problematic aspects of Hamlet, such as the Ghost or The Mousetrap. These are deconstructed in Jonson’s comedy, which anticipates the Enlightenment views of the social functioning of theatre as a “moral institution”.

Early Modern Cultural Hybridity: <italic>Bartholomew Fair</italic> as a Heterotopia of <italic>Hamlet</italic>

Prague Journal of English Studies

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Early Modern Cultural Hybridity:  as a Heterotopia of 

As a contribution to the discussion of Shakespeare’s “appropriability” (Stanley Cavell), this paper examines some aspects of the cultural position of Hamlet on...

Early Modern Cultural Hybridity: Bartholomew Fair as a Heterotopia of Hamlet

Published Online: Sep 24, 2019

Page range: 9 - 20

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pjes-2019-0001

Keywords
hybridity, appropriation, metatheatrical, heterotopia

© 2019 Martin Procházka, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Early Modern Cultural Hybridity: Bartholomew Fair as a Heterotopia of Hamlet

Published Online: Sep 24, 2019

Page range: 9 - 20

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pjes-2019-0001

Keywordshybridity, appropriation, metatheatrical, heterotopia

© 2019 Martin Procházka, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
hybridity, appropriation, metatheatrical, heterotopia