Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition
- ISBN-10
- 0691160244
- ISBN-13
- 9780691160245
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 322
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-10-20
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Author
- Stephen Greenblatt
Description
Setting out to explain his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, Stephen Greenblatt provides an account of the rise and fall of purgatory as both a belief and a lucrative institution - as well as a new reading of the power of Hamlet.
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