Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet

by Stephen Ratcliffe

Drama. Literary Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. READING THE UNSEEN: (OFFSTAGE) HAMLET is about the presence and significance of offstage action in Hamlet, things we hear about in words but do not see performed physically onstage--things like King Hamlet's murder "while [he] was sleeping in [his] orchard," Ophelia's death in "the glassy stream," Hamlet's visit to Ophelia's "closet ... with his doublet all unbraced," Gertrude and Claudius having sex...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933996145
• ISBN13: 9781933996141
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Counterpath Press
• Length: 200 Pages