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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17483
The Death of Hamnet and the Making of Hamlet
By Stephen Greenblatt

[...] Over centuries of feverish speculation, the most
compelling reflections on the presence of
Shakespeare's emotional life in his
plays—preeminently, James Joyce's brilliant pages in
Ulysses, but there are many others—have focused on
Hamlet. This biographical attention to a work deriving
from recycled materials and written for the public
stage would seem inherently implausible, were it not
for the overwhelming impression on readers and
spectators alike that the play must have emerged in an
unusually direct way from the playwright's inner life,
indeed that at moments the playwright was barely in
control of his materials. I will attempt in what
follows to trace Hamlet back to a personal experience
of grief and to sketch a long-term aesthetic strategy
that seems to have emerged from this experience. [...] 

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