In Hamlet’s path : Shakespearean etchings in Laforgue and Tzara

Taking into consideration Jules Laforgue’s Hamlet, ou les suites de le piété filiale [Hamlet, or The Consequences of Filial Piety] (published in 1887, that is to say during the Anti-realist decadentist movement) and Tristan Tzara’s Mouchoir de nuages [Handkerchief of Clouds] (represented in 1924, that is to say at the very end of dadaist experience), the “Hamlets” discussed in this speech are situated on both ends of an epoch in which the central question of truth (vérité) and reality in poetic language are taken into account from a relative perspective. We will investigate the utilization of Hamlet myth and words in these two works trying to show their relation to tradition and they attempt to recast Shakespeare's motives and practices in a modern way.