4 Epistemic problems
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play about confirming one’s beliefs to hone in on the truth. As there is really only a single eyewitness, per se, in the whole play—Horatio—there appears to be a narratorial bias present in the story/play of Hamlet. Taken further, this fact exposes something of a narratorial bias about theatre, as different participants bring their own perspective and vantage points of how they bear witness to the unfolding of events. In this way, theatre is less an ephemeral event and more of a rhizomal process that different participants and actors (in more than one sense of the word) can enter into and exit out of.
The presumption
Unlike fiction, ...
