This paper analyzes, based on references made by Harold Bloom in his study Shakespeare: the invention of the human, passages in which Nietzsche proposes ways to read and understand two Shakespearean tragedies. One of these passages, taken from Aurora, justifies an understanding of Macbeth that escapes from the moral evaluation of the protagonist. The other passage is from Nietzsche's first book, The Birth of Tragedy, and concerns the interpretation of one of the most debated issues in the reception of Hamlet: the reason for the hesitation of the prince, under the circumstances presented in the first act of the tragedy.
Nietzsche; Shakespeare; Macbeth; Hamlet