"'As good as a chorus': Hamlet's Mousetrap in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis" https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo862/ Author: Arribas, Sonia. Type: Journal Article Year: 2022 Publication Information: Textual Practice 36, no. 9 (2022): 1537–58. Annotation: Applies philosophical and psychoanalytic readings to the Mousetrap scene in order to argue that "its failure needs to be situated in the historical moment when it was created — a world characterised by the lack of transcendent values — one in which art folds back upon itself infinitely." English summary, 1537. Language: English Tags: Hamlet, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism WSB Update: Fall 2025 WSB Record Number: bbbo862