Staging violence in William Shakespeare’s <i>Hamlet</i>: From the theatrics of the mind, the image and the stage to the creation of the meta-self

Abstract Violence in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet follows stage-managed theatrics at the level of language and images used, construction a theatre that comments on theatre, staged minds. The images, sound, stage mind are necessary steps for to create meta-self. Metatheatre grotesque deeply connected violence; their association makes what research calls article combines different theoretical concepts not commonly used simultaneously. alliance between carnivalesque metatheatrical reveals while dealing with violence. violence present performance, images. dynamics constructed upon staging prove is staged. Baudrillard’s “hyperreality”, “traversing self” “holographic attempts” allow us conclude reaches “meta-self”. Meta-self traversing self challenges society mocks over-confidence; it operates as mirror, crossing-thinking constant rehearsal reassessment certitudes humans.