Hamlet and Political Theology
I. SCHMITTIANA:
Hamlet oder Hekuba
Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet Oder Hekuba: Der Einbruch der Zeit in das Spiel was published in 1956 and reprinted in German by Klett-Kotta in 1983. Portions were translated into English under the title, “The Source of the Tragic,” trans. David Pan, in a special issue of Telos 72 (Summer 1987): 133-52. The full monograph has been translated into French, Hamlet ou Hécube, trans. Jean-Louis Besson and Jean Jourdheuil (Paris: L’Arche, 1992).
David Pan (UCI) and Jennifer Rust (St. Louis University; CUI Ph.D.) are working on a translation of the text, forthcoming from Telos Press, Spring 2009. David Pan will write an introduction on the place of this text in Schmitt’s work as a whole. Julia Lupton and Jennifer Rust will write an introduction geared to work on Schmitt in Renaissance Studies.
Marketing sheet (pdf)for Hamet or Hecuba
Of related interest:
“Hamlet or Hecuba: Carl Schmitt’s Decision”
by Victoria Kahn
Representations, No. 83, (Summer, 2003), pp. 67-96
Published by: University of California Press
Stable URL (JSTOR): http://www.jstor.org/stable/3176131
“From Walter Benjamin to Carl Schmitt, via Thomas Hobbes”
By Horst Bredekamp, Melissa Thorson Hause, Jackson Bond
Critical Inquiry, Vol. 25, No. 2, “Angelus Novus”: Perspectives on Walter Benjamin,
(Winter, 1999), pp. 247-266
Published by: The University of Chicago Press
Stable URL (JSTOR): http://www.jstor.org/stable/1344202
“Hamlet, Prince: Tragedy, Citizenship, and Political Theology.” By Julia Reinhard Lupton. In Alternative Shakespeares 3, ed. Diana Henderson (Routledge, 2007). pdf file
Lupton and Reinhard on Benjamin and Hamlet (pdf file)
David Pan and Russell Berman, co-editors, special issue of TELOS on Carl Schmitt, Politics, and Culture
Telospress.com
“Hamlet and the Scottish Succession?”
by Stuart M. Kurland
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 34, No. 2, Elizabethan and Jacobean
Drama, (Spring, 1994), pp. 279-300
Published by: Rice University
Stable URL (JSTOR): http://www.jstor.org/stable/450902
II. ICONOGRAPHICA:
Additional articles, largely numismatic, by Kantorowicz, available on JSTOR
Ivories and Litanies
Author(s): Ernst Kantorowicz
Source: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 5, (1942), pp. 56-81
Published by: The Warburg Institute
Stable URL (JSTOR): http://www.jstor.org/stable/750449
(On diptychs of Justinian)
Oriens Augusti. Lever du Roi
Author(s): Ernst H. Kantorowicz
Source: Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 17, (1963), pp. 117-177
Published by: Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1291193
(On sun / oriens/ orient coingage)
Gods in Uniform
Author(s): Ernst H. Kantorowicz
Source: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 105, No. 4, (Aug. 15, 1961), pp.
368-393
Published by: American Philosophical Society
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/985496
(another numismatic study, involving gods who wear the uniforms of the army)
A major source of Schmitt’s argument is Lilian Winstanley’s Hamlet and the Question of the Scottish Succession, first printed in 1921. It is available on line.
IV. CONCERING KANTOROWICZ
“The Concept of the “King’s Two Bodies in Hamlet”
Author(s): Jerah Johnson
Source: Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 4, (Autumn, 1967), pp. 430-434
Published by: Folger Shakespeare Library
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2867645
“Hamlet and the Coronation of Christian IV”
by Gunnar Sjogren
Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 2, (Spring, 1965), pp. 155-160
Stable URL (JSTOR): http://www.jstor.org/stable/2868260
‘In This Time without Emperors’: The Politics of Ernst Kantorowicz’s Kaiser Friedrich der
Zweite Reconsidered
Martin A. Ruehl
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 63, (2000), pp. 187-242
Published by: The Warburg Institute
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/751526
“The Leader’s Two Bodies: Slavoj Žižek’s Postmodern Political Theology”
Author(s): Claudia Breger
Source: Diacritics, Vol. 31, No. 1, (Spring, 2001), pp. 73-90
Stable URL (JSTOR): http://www.jstor.org/stable/1566316
OTHER KEY BIBLIOGRAPHY (NOT ON LINE)
Writings by Freud on Hamlet
Walter Benjamin, Origins of the German Tragic Drama
Ernst Kantorowicz, The King’s Two Bodies
Lyotard, “Jewish Oedipus” (in Genre
Stephen Greenblatt, Hamlet in Purgatory
Margreta de Grazia, Hamlet without Hamlet
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