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Hamlet: Critical Essay by James W. Stone

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SOURCE: Stone, James W. “Androgynous ‘Union’ and the Women in Hamlet.Shakespeare Studies 23 (1995): 71-99.

In the following essay, Stone studies Shakespeare's representation of androgyny in Hamlet, and finds that the collapse of sexual difference in the play leads to a parallel disintegration of moral boundaries.

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