CW: Major spoilers for Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” and Pierre Bayard’s essay “Enquête sur Hamlet: le Dialogue de Sourds” In Enquête sur Hamlet, an essay still unpublished in English, Pierre Bayard highlights a plothole. In the famous Mousetrap scene, Hamlet stages a play depicting a murder by poisoned ear to expose Claudius’s crime. However, in a pre-Mousetrap […]
