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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 37
IS  - no. 1
T2  - Philosophy and Literature
SP  - 1-19
ID  - bbbc465
T1  - "Hamlet and the Ghost: A Joint Sense of Time"
AU  - DeCarlo, John F
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2026
KW  - Hamlet
KW  - ontology
KW  - time
KW  - Ghost (Hamlet)
LA  - English
AB  - Deconstructs Hamlet's ontological metaphor "the time is out of joint" to show that Shakespeare implicitly commits to a Kantian conception of time in that Hamlet temporarily identifies with the Ghost's temporal-categorical mind-set but uncharacteristically loses track of time during the prayer and closet scenes. Concludes that Hamlet's identification with the Ghost's categorical sense of what is possible or impossible in accordance with the passage of outer time leads to the prince's inaction.
ER  -