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Tsuji Masahiro
Department Undergraduate School , School of Business Administration Position Professor |
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| Language | Japanese |
| Publication Date | 2021/09 |
| Type | Academic Journal |
| Title | Does Hamlet secretly represent Queen Elizabeth? |
| Contribution Type | Sole-authored |
| Journal Type | Japan |
| Publisher | Meiji University |
| Volume, Issue, Page | (554),pp.23-62 |
| Total page number | 39 |
| Author and coauthor | TSUJI Masahiro |
| Details | Shakespeare wrote Hamletaround 1600 when Queen Elizabeth was in her later days. Her subjects, both nobles and commoners, were concerned about her successor. In the play, dying Hamlet expresses his will for Fortinbras as the successor. If we reverse the gender of characters, Gertrude, who was made a widow by the assassination of her husband, corresponds to Henry VIII, who became a widower by giving a death sentence to his wife. It is possible to suppose Shakespeare had a secret intention of representing Elizabeth as Hamlet. |
| URL for researchmap | https://m-repo.lib.meiji.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/10291/22043/1/kyouyoronshu_554_%2823%29.pdf |