The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 27.348 Wednesday, 19 October 2016
From: Anthony Burton <
Date: October 18, 2016 at 2:37:48 PM EDT
Subject: Constitutions of Hamlet
It’s always good to know that the world hasn’t stopped wrestling with the many facets of Hamlet. Yet, in what Simon Ryle describes as an “age of analysis,” and endless wrestling in “academic discourse” over “political theologies,” in search of a “teletechnological episteme” with Hamlet him/itself as the “quintessential object of academic desire,” I sigh and think of the latest member of literature’s pantheon, Bob Dylan, and his wonderfully apposite “he not busy being born is busy dyin.”
Will Hamlet’s stuffed head ever be mounted over the mantelpiece of academia’s epistemic trophy room? Not a chance; it’s too busy being born — in every reader, every viewer, every actor, every moment.
But who doesn’t love a bull session?
Tony Burton