Author: Alexander Wellington CrawfordPublisher: Boston : R.G. Badger ; Toronto : Copp Clark
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Hamlet, an Ideal Prince
Author: Alexander Wellington CrawfordPublisher: Boston : R.G. Badger ; Toronto : Copp Clark
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Madness of Prince Hamlet & Other Extraordinary States of Mind
Author: R. M. YoungsonPublisher: Constable
ISBN: 9781841190488
Category : Brain
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This is an account of some of the most bizarre areas of human psychology, ranging from extraordinary states of mind such as love, faith and anger to full-blown psychosis. It examines disorders such as schizophrenia or Tourette's syndrome and bizarre mental states that lead to dancing mania, demonic possession, hypocondria or self-mutilation. The author discusses the unusual mental make-ups of criminals, saints, paedophiles and mediums and the extraordinary mental states most of us experience - self delusion as a defense mechanism.
Hamlet
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN: 9781638435020
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: B.E.S. Publishing
ISBN: 9780764161452
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents William Shakespeare's play adapted into graphic novel format about a Danish prince who seeks vengeance for his father's murder after being visited by his ghost.
Hamlet, an Ideal Prince
Author: Alexander Wellington CrawfordPublisher: Boston : R.G. Badger ; Toronto : Copp Clark
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Hamlet in Purgatory
Author: Stephen GreenblattPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400848091
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him through surprising intellectual territory. It yields an extraordinary account of the rise and fall of Purgatory as both a belief and a lucrative institution--as well as a capacious new reading of the power of Hamlet. In the mid-sixteenth century, English authorities abruptly changed the relationship between the living and dead. Declaring that Purgatory was a false "poem," they abolished the institutions and banned the practices that Christians relied on to ease the passage to Heaven for themselves and their dead loved ones. Greenblatt explores the fantastic adventure narratives, ghost stories, pilgrimages, and imagery by which a belief in a grisly "prison house of souls" had been shaped and reinforced in the Middle Ages. He probes the psychological benefits as well as the high costs of this belief and of its demolition. With the doctrine of Purgatory and the elaborate practices that grew up around it, the church had provided a powerful method of negotiating with the dead. The Protestant attack on Purgatory destroyed this method for most people in England, but it did not eradicate the longings and fears that Catholic doctrine had for centuries focused and exploited. In his strikingly original interpretation, Greenblatt argues that the human desires to commune with, assist, and be rid of the dead were transformed by Shakespeare--consummate conjurer that he was--into the substance of several of his plays, above all the weirdly powerful Hamlet. Thus, the space of Purgatory became the stage haunted by literature's most famous ghost. This book constitutes an extraordinary feat that could have been accomplished by only Stephen Greenblatt. It is at once a deeply satisfying reading of medieval religion, an innovative interpretation of the apparitions that trouble Shakespeare's tragic heroes, and an exploration of how a culture can be inhabited by its own spectral leftovers. This expanded Princeton Classics edition includes a new preface by the author.
The Renaissance Hamlet
Author: Roland Mushat FryePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400852846
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Drawing on recent advances in historical knowledge, the author describes contemporary attitudes toward issues such as rebellion, conscience, regicide, incest, retribution, and mourning. His investigation reveals a number of convincing new reasons for viewing Hamlet not as an irresolute young man but as a vigorous and determined figure in confrontation with the moral dilemmas of his age. By understanding the play in its original terms, we find that it takes on new depth and power for our own time. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Modern Reader's Hamlet
Author: William ShakespeareModern Philology
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ISBN:
Category : Philology, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Vols. 30-54 include 1932-1956 of: Victorian bibliography, prepared by a committee of the Victorian Literature Group of the Modern Language Association of America.
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