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Alienating Hamlet: Precarious Work in Jenny Andreasson's Teatern
Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2469-6431
2023 (English)In: Critical Survey, ISSN 0011-1570, E-ISSN 1752-2293, Vol. 35, no 4, p. 41-57Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The protagonist of Jenny Andreasson's autobiographical novel Teatern (2022) is a young female director whose feminist production of Hamlet at the Swedish national stage fails to have its planned premiere. While the novel makes a point of describing the misogynist structures behind this failure, the present article suggests that class structures and precarity are the main reasons behind it. The financial difficulties of the theatre generate a clear discrepancy between cultural capital – embodied by Shakespeare's canonical play – and economic. The resulting precarious work situation is reflected in the protagonist's yearning for stability, in her recurring assertions of class privileges vis-à-vis her co-workers and in her increasing sense of alienation from both them and her own work. While not strictly paraphrasing Shakespeare's play, the protagonist invokes parallels to both Hamlet and Ophelia, and Teatern, instead of locating these parallels in an ‘existential’ reading of Shakespeare's play, anchors the theme of alienation in the economic and social strictures of the theatre institution.

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Berghahn Books , 2023. Vol. 35, no 4, p. 41-57
Keywords [en]
alienation; class; Hamlet; Jenny Andreasson; precarity; Teatern; William Shakespeare; work
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Languages and Literature
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Humanities, English literature; Humanities, Comparative literature
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-98816DOI: 10.3167/cs.2023.350404ISI: 001085828100003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85174176394OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-98816DiVA, id: diva2:1844687
Available from: 2023-09-13 Created: 2024-03-14Bibliographically approved

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