One of the oldest extant works of literature, the Bible, narrates the interaction between Cain and his brother Abel and establishes an unpromising precedent for future kinship relations. Since that first murder, the first documented lie, and the sarcastic profession of ignorance which followed, violence and cruelty have frequently gone hand in hand with notions of kinship.
The first words uttered by the protagonist of perhaps the world’s most celebrated play, The Tragedy of Hamlet, exposes…
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