Hamlet in Purgatory
Greenblatt's study of the ghost of Hamlet's father and purgatory
Author
Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher
Princeton University Press, Princeton & Oxford, 2001
Printing Details
First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 16cm, xii + 322pp.
Stephen Greenblatt sets out to explain his 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.
Condition
This copy is in very good condition.
ISBN
9780691058733