To the Life
Resurrection and Presence in The Second Maiden's Tragedy , Hamlet , and Fat Ham
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4552087 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lauren Robertson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 157-175 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tj.2024.a932166 |
| OpenAlex | W4400920893 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Occupying a central place in Jacques Derrida's formulation of hauntology, Hamlet 's Ghost is familiar to contemporary performance theory, standing in for the secondariness and self-division that define dramatic representation. But there was another figure more emblematic of performance in the early modern English playhouse: the revenant. Examining the convention of resurrection as it was frequently deployed in this theatre, this essay uncovers the capacity of the revenant to generate presence, the visceral sense of theatrical immediacy first championed by Antonin Artaud. Following readings of The Second Maiden's Tragedy and Hamlet , it concludes with a coda on James Ijames's Fat Ham (2023), a play that adopts the early modern theatre's resurrective praxis of presence
Art · HAMLET (protein complex · Literature · Tragedy (event · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |