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Anna Lindemann

Hamlet ‘in and out’ oder: Wie Hamlet und Grabbes Faust im Theater ihres Geistes spielen

Grabbe played a decisive role in the German Shakespeare reception, and his Faust has affinities with Hamlet. Comparing their language, their attitude to the world, and their concepts of subjectivity and history, we gain insights that go beyond the characters themselves. Faust's and Hamlet's subjectivity, their different concepts and perceptions of reality, and Grabbe's way of referring to them suggest that the genesis of his Hamlet-Faust derives from his own Shakespeare interpretation, which differs from the accepted, mainly romantic view of Hamlet. Grabbe's Faust becomes plausible if we regard Hamlet, Don Juan and Faust as its source, and Grabbe's own hero type as its inspiration.

Arcadia International Journal for Literary Studies, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0003-7982
Volume: 41, 07/2006
Pages: 160 - 186

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