IMAGO Interculturalité et Didactique
Volume 24, Numéro 2, Pages 169-183
2025-12-27
Hamlet In Disneyland: A Postmodern Reading Of Hamlet’s Danish World
Authors : Khalfi Amina . Benzoukh Halima .
Abstract
Although Hamlet is often interpreted as a universal multifaceted theatrical figure, he is always misconceived as a mad lover, a disobedient son, a feeble prince and sometimes a cold-hearted murderer because he is decontextualized from his world of Renaissance Humanism. This study explores Hamlet’s cleverness and madness as a Humanist Scholar when being thrown into a phantasmagoric atmosphere created by his uncle, King Claudius. In adopting Jean Baudrillard’s postmodern theory of the hyperreal and his notion of Disneyland as a real country, this study delves into investigating how King Claudius tricks the members of the castle into entering his constructed hyperreality and how Prince Hamlet overshadows him when regenerating a Dismaland that functions as a copy of King Claudius’s lost copy. This ‘lost copy’ refers to the original reality that King Claudius has obscured with his hyperreality, and Hamlet’s ‘Dismaland’ is a bleak imitation of this lost reality via the enactment of the murder of the late King Hamlet that led to the obstruction of his Uncle’s imaginativeness due to the meta-version on the stage.
Keywords
Cartoonish Disneyland ; humanist hyperreal ; mata-narrative Simulacra
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