Hamlet in purgatory
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Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Status
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction
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Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xv, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Previous edition: 2001.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-314) and index.
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This book delves into the author's longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him through surprising intellectual territory. It yields an extraordinary account of the rise and fall of Purgatory as both a belief and a lucrative institution as well as a capacious new reading of the power of Hamlet. In the mid-sixteenth century, English authorities abruptly changed the relationship between the living and dead. Declaring that Purgatory was a false poem, they abolished the institutions and banned the practices that Christians relied on to ease the passage to Heaven for themselves and their dead loved ones. Greenblatt explores the fantastic adventure narratives, ghost stories, pilgrimages, and imagery by which a belief in a grisly prison house of souls had been shaped and reinforced in the Middle Ages. He probes the psychological benefits as well as the high costs of this belief and of its demolition.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Greenblatt, S. (2013). Hamlet in purgatory (First Princeton classics edition.). Princeton University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-. 2013. Hamlet in Purgatory. Princeton University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-. Hamlet in Purgatory Princeton University Press, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Greenblatt, Stephen. Hamlet in Purgatory First Princeton classics edition., Princeton University Press, 2013.
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