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Hamlet in his modern guises

Focusing on Shakespeare's "Hamlet" as foremost a study of grief, this book offers an analysis of its protagonist as the archetype of the modern hero. It situates "Hamlet" within the context of family and mourning as it was presented in other revenge tragedies of Shakespeare's time.
Print Book, English, 2001
Princeton University Press, Princeton (N.J.) [etc.], 2001
XII, 178 p. 24 cm
9780691050935, 0691050937
1014989282
Preface and Acknowledgments ix CHAPTER ONE Medieval Hamlet Gains a Family 3 CHAPTER TWO Hamlet's Mourning and Revenge Tragedy 26 CHAPTER THREE History, as between Goethe's Hamlet and Scott's 71 CHAPTER FOUR Hamlet's Expectations, Pip's Great Guilt 102 CHAPTER FIVE Hamlet Decides to Be a Modernist 140 Index 175