@inbook{c3f2b07f7637420e897a93e60acf25ce,
title = "Hamlet{\textquoteright}s Tears",
abstract = "This essay begins by asking whether the grieving Hamlet weeps when he makes his wish {\textquoteleft}that this too, too sullied flesh would melt / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew{\textquoteright} (1.2.133–134). Cognizant of the fact that critics are more often concerned with whether Hamlet actually says {\textquoteleft}sullied{\textquoteright}, {\textquoteleft}sallied{\textquoteright}, {\textquoteleft}solid{\textquoteright}, or {\textquoteleft}grieved and sallied{\textquoteright} than whether or not he sheds tears as he says it, this essay argues nonetheless that Hamlet expresses not just a death wish in the first soliloquy—a temptation to suicide—, but also that he actively seeks Ovidian transformation in the form of a watery metamorphosis. Indeed, the desire to weep becomes a powerful engine of tragic catharsis despite the period{\textquoteright}s profound reservations about mourning.",
author = "Dympna Callaghan",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019, The Author(s).",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-03795-6_7",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Palgrave Shakespeare Studies",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "135--159",
booktitle = "Palgrave Shakespeare Studies",
}