Hamlet'te 'gotik': ürkütücülüğün katartik korkunun oluşmasındaki işlevi

Built on Elizabethan dramatic conventions and religious debates about ghosts, Hamletemploys linguistic and dramatic means to chill its audience. Audio-visual means, alongwith the manner of entrances and exits, are used in order to horrify the audience. Thesecreate a fuctuation between belief and disbelief towards the macabre elements in theplay, which in turn heightens the fear in the audience. Thus, through these elements,gothic catharsis is achieved, which creates cathartic horror that generates fear in theaudience. The overall sensory experience in the Early Modern amphitheatre in which theplay was enacted had a great effect on the creation of this form of catharsis. Therefore, thisarticle aims to illustrate how the Elizabethan playhouse experience affected audiencereaction towards macabre elements and triggered gothic catharsis in Hamlet.