I Knew Him, Horatio
Shakespeare's Beliefs, Early Textual Editing, and Nineteenth-Century Phrenology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3442183 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bryan Adams Hampton (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 236 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel10040236 |
| OpenAlex | W2928025076 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
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 several eighteenth-century textual editors, and some nineteenth-century scholars and popular admirers, imagine and construct Shakespeare's beliefs: the first, through their efforts to reassemble the textual "bones" of Shakespeare's works; and the second, through the rising pseudoscience of phrenology, operating in the background in the national debate to exhume and examine Shakespeare's skull
Art · Epistemology · Literature · Personhood · Phrenology · Pseudoscience · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · Law in Society and Culture · Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies · Philosophy
The Undiscovered Countries
The GPR investigation of the Shakespeare family graves
The Family in Shakespeare Studies; or--Studies in the Family of Shakespeareans; or--The Politics of Politics
Popular Science and Society
At War 'Twixt Will and Will Not
Hamlet the Heretic
Paganism and Reform in Shakespeare's Plays
Shakespeare and Religion
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |