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Early Modern Cultural Hybridity: Bartholomew Fair as a Heterotopia of Hamlet

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2019

Abstract

The article interprets Jonson's play as an experimental work of the early modern drama anticipating recent notions of cultural hybridity. It shows how the drama responds to the best know Shakespeare's tragedy, aiming at a new concept of theatre able to compete with modern commercial culture.