Young Hamlet: Essays on Shakespeare's Tragedies

by Barbara Everett

These essays offer fresh ideas about Shakespeare. Everett argues that patterns in the major tragedies are drawn from the most common human experiences, and that Shakespeare used his great public settings to suggest myths of the personal life. The first essay "Growing," proposes a new reading that recovers an older forgotten view of the place of the young within the social order. Other essays exemplify a wide range of approaches to Shakespeare's tragic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198122543
• ISBN13: 9780198122548
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"