ABSTRACT
There are so many Shakespeares. The Shakespeare that I wish to engage with
in this chapter may be construed of as a mystic and shaman. I wish to engage
with this particular Shakespeare through a reading of Hamlet that specifically
attends to what I see as the play’s disclosure of a poetic realism that goes beyond
the ghostliness of writing. This reading will focus simply on the text before going
on to take into account a critical appreciation of how the interpretation I offer
pertains to a certain placing of Hamlet in cross-cultural and colonial contexts.
