Barkovs Hamlet A Tragedy of Errors Essay - 6762 Words

William Shakespeare authorship: The text of Hamlet contains indications that Shakespeare portrayed himself as an allegedly dead university graduate. HAMLET: A TRAGEDY OF ERRORS, OR THE TRAGICAL FATE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE? by Alfred Barkov To the contents When the text of William Shakespeare: a mask for Hamlet - Christopher Marlowe? William Shakespeare Hamlet is read attentively, and no details are disregarded, it becomes evident that William Shakespeare included in it something quite different from what has been traditionally interpreted. According to the text, prince Hamlet was not a son to king Hamlet, king Hamlet has never been poisoned, pregnant Ophelia was drowned by prince Hamlets half-brother. Though that might sound odd, the†¦show more content†¦According to Shakespeares intention, the whole text of Hamlet is narrated by one of the characters who is Hamlets half-brother, though we erroneously perceive him as if he were Shakespeare himself. The nature of the contradictions is explained with the fact that the text of Hamlet contains two different plots, the one depicting the real events in Elsinore (the prosaic passages), and the other being the text of the drama staged in the castle (the pentameter portion.) The plot of the staged pentameter drama features the real persons with changed biographies. That is, the princes age is twenty within the plot of the staged drama while the real Hamlet who instructs the actors and watches and comments that drama is thirty. Moreover, it appears that he is king Hamlets son only within the plot of the inner drama. In reality, he is a son to king Fortinbras killed by his brother on the very day prince Hamlet was born. This feature was openly manifested in the First Quarto while in the Second Quarto as well as in the Folio it became disguised, and to reveal it, its necessary to compare facts included in the text and apply some logic. The character whom Shakespeare made to narrate the text had many reasons to conceal the truth; what has been apprehended as the content of Shakespeares drama is actually the Narrators faked account of the events in which he played an