The Ghosts of Hamlet: The Play and Modern Writers

by Martin Scofield

Book Overview

If the aim of criticism is, in Arnold's phrase, 'to see the object as in itself it really is', what 'is' Hamlet, when every age has seen the play quite differently? Despite certain notable accounts, there is no single reading that seems to have interpreted the play for our time. This book approaches the play through its influence on the work of some writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Separate chapters show their different responses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521135524
• ISBN13: 9780521135528
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"