Abstract:Did Shakespeare read Plato? In Hamlet, Claudius proposes that reason's "common theme" is the "death of fathers." This allusion to Plato's Sophist casts the ghost as the dead "father" Parmenides, Claudius as the sophist who eludes capture in the Eleatic stranger's net of words, and Hamlet as the philosopher who can only catch him through an act of pure thought. After considering the literary scholarship on this line I show how Claudius's portrayal closely matches Plato's description of the tyrant, and I assess the implications of these references for both Plato's theory of representation and the play.

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父亲之死的理性：柏拉图的智者与哈姆雷特中鬼魂的命令

摘要：莎士比亚读过柏拉图吗？在哈姆雷特中，克劳狄斯提出理性的“共同主题”是“父亲之死”。这个对柏拉图的智者的暗示将鬼魂塑造为死去的“父亲”巴门尼德，克劳狄斯扮演了躲避埃利亚特陌生人语言网络捕捉的智者，而哈姆雷特则扮演了只能通过纯粹的思想行为才能抓住他的哲学家。在考虑了这方面的文学学术之后，我展示了克劳狄斯的描绘如何与柏拉图对暴君的描述密切匹配，并评估这些参考对柏拉图的表现理论和戏剧的影响。