Hamlet and Batman - Austin Tichenor's excellent exploration

At the Folger Shakespeare Library's "Shakespeare and Beyond" blog, Austin Tichenor recently (April 19, 2022) posted some excellent reflections about Hamlet-Batman parallels, with Batman as a kind of American Hamlet, and including his thoughts on the recent film starring Robert Pattinson as the caped crusader in The Batman. It is a fun read that doesn't get bogged down in scholarly jargon.

The blog also includes this fun comicbook image from 2008, Batman #682 (Grant Morrison, Lee Garbett, Trevor Scott), via the Folger blog post:

Highly recommended. It also offers bonus reflects near the end about Hamlet-Black Panther parallels.

You can read it here, or by copying and pasting the following URL into your browser:

https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2022/04/19/batman-shakespeare-hamlet-gotham/

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