The World's Play in Hamlet

Abstract

From a reading of Hamlet the author traces the link between regicide and natural disorder, as it was understood in medieval political philosophy and its transition to the philosophy of the Renaissance.  An investigation is carried through on  the link between insanity, dramatic deviation and political drift, and its implications on the moral vision of the world presented on the play.  This theatrical reading of politics places the problem of the dialectic occultation /re-velation of the texts as a central issue of modernity.  Strategy and tactics are in the base of the hamletian matrix as novelty of the Renaissance paradigm of government and of the modern theory of the Prince, although –as a paradox- Hamlet’s drama lives it providentially, as an expression of the universal desire of God.