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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 4
IS  - no. 2
T2  - Comedy Studies
SP  - 155-65
ID  - bbbc1638
T1  - "'To what base uses we may return, Horatio!'--Hamlet, Comedy and Class Struggle"
AU  - Hui, Isaac
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2026
KW  - social class
KW  - materialism
KW  - skull
LA  - English
AB  - "Analyzes the relationship between comedy and tragedy through a rereading of the gravedigger scene in Hamlet" by "first, discussing the relationship between comedy and materialism, and, second, examining the mutuality between comedy and tragedy." "Discusses how comedy links with the material, class struggle, and death and castration, arguing that the comedic quality of the gravedigger is inseparable from his materialism, suggesting that if tragedy is about the spiritual, comedy would be about the interruption of the spiritual by the material, and that these two qualities coincide in the grinning skull." English summary, 155.
ER  -