No Hamlets is the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany from the founding of the Empire in 1871 to the 'Bonn Republic' of the Cold War era. In this sustained study, Andreas Höfele begins with Friedrich Nietzsche and follows the rightist engagement with Shakespeare to the poet Stefan George and his circle, including Ernst Kantorowicz, and the literary efforts of the young Joseph Goebbels during the Weimar Republic, continuing with the Shakespeare debate in the Third Reich and its aftermath in the controversy over 'inner emigration' and concluding with Carl Schmitt's Shakespeare writings of the 1950s. Central to this enquiry is the identification of Germany and, more specifically, German intellectuals with Hamlet. The special relationship of Germany with Shakespeare found highly personal and at the same time highIy political expression in this recurring identification, and in its denial. But Hamlet is not the only Shakespearean character with strong appeal: Carl Schmitt's largely still unpublished diaries of the 1920s reveal an obsessive engagement with Othello which has never before been examined. Interest in German philosophy and political thought has increased in recent Shakespeare studies. No Hamlets brings historical depth to this international discussion. Illuminating the constellations that shaped and were shaped by specific appropriations of Shakespeare, Höfele shows how individual engagements with Shakespeare and a whole strand of Shakespeare reception were embedded in German history from the 1870s to the 1950s and eventually 1989, the year of German reunification.

In Shakespeare's London, the stage of the playhouse, the stake of the bear baiting arena, and the scaffold of public execution constituted an ensemble of related spectacles that shared the same audiences. Andreas Höfele argues that this generated a powerful exchange of images and a spill-over of animal features into Shakespeare's characters.

Andreas Hofeles Buch ist die erste Gesamtdarstellung von Carl Schmitts Umgang mit der Literatur. Es rekonstruiert die intellektuelle Biographie des umstrittenen Staatsrechtlers im Lichte der in den verschiedenen Phasen seines langen Lebens jeweils wichtigsten literarischen Autoren, Werke und Figuren. Schmitt war mit Dichtern befreundet, er hat uber Literatur geschrieben und auch selber literarische Texte verfasst. Vor allem aber war ihm die Literatur zeitlebens eine unentbehrliche Denkressource. Das Buch beschreibt die politischen und personlichen Konstellationen, von denen Schmitts Umgang mit Literatur gepragt war und in denen er Resonanz fand. Es zeigt, dass die Literatur kein Nebenschauplatz des Schmitt'schen Denkens ist. Sie ist Spiegel und immer wieder zentraler Referenzrahmen fur Schmitts Sicht auf die Zeitgeschichte und fur die mythische Uberhohung seiner eigenen Rolle in ihr.

Levenswandel van een van de spionnen en 'agents-provocateurs' in de 16e eeuw in dienst van koningin Elisabeth I van Engeland.

Kriminalroman fra Tanger.