Kastan, David Scott

Kastan, David Scott. His semblable is his mirror Hamlet and the Imitation of Revenge. Shakespeare Studies 19 (1988), 111-24. 

As Jenkins points out in the notes to these lines, his pronouncement here that he will have the players perform a play like the murder of his father is of course somewhat belated Hamlet has already, sixty lines earlier, ordered the players to prepare The Murder of Gonzago. On the vicissitudes and significances of mirroring or imitation in the play, see David Scott Kastan,... 

Peter Stallybrass, Reading the Body and the Jacobean Theater of Consumption , in David Scott Kastan and Peter Stallybrass (eds.). Staging the Renaissance Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (New York Routledge,... 

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