Postmodern Shakespeare: Thinking Through Hamlet’s Subversive Character by Yu-min Huang

“…In my argument, Shakespeare misspeaks to his readers in the atmosphere of Protestant Elizabethan England the meanings of death in Prince Hamlet’s perspective in order to reverse his readers’ way of seeing and to make them experience Prince Hamlet’s Catholicism as the form of the opposite, by which they can become theologians themselves and meet God behind His mask. …”
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Metacriticism in Salman Rushdie’s Short Story “Yorick” by Seda Arıkan

“…Rushdie’s “Yorick” that is based on an invented story about the character Yorick, the dead clown whose skull Prince Hamlet handles and makes his famous speech in Hamlet, appears as an example of creative metacriticism that depicts the place and function of literary criticism in a fictional work.Referring to theoretical criticisms of Hamlet, such as psychoanalysis and social theories, Rushdie uses criticism of literary criticism in his short story “Yorick”. …”
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