Kingship in Hamlet
- Created by: kclark_23
- Created on: 11-06-20 15:50
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- Kingship in 'Hamlet'
- political power is concentrated on the throne
- remnant of previous political state
- Claudius as a pragmatist
- an archetypal Machiavellian king
- astute politician
- morally inept
- devoid of spirit of right rule
- 'a king of shreds and patches'
- kingship is built in terms of abstractions and contradictions
- 'have proved most royally'
- theories of sacred kingship made the monarch the sovereign reformer and embodiment of the realm's temporal and spiritual heart
- fraught with classical comparisons
- King Hamlet as the rightful king
- Shakespeare is perhaps critiquing the medieval metaphor of body politic and questions the divine right of kings
- true kingship lies not with Claudius but with the legitimate spirit
- kings two bodies
- implicit conflict of authority
- political power is concentrated on the throne
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