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Student
Guide to Shakespeare’s Hamlet
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Peter
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ISBN
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1-871551-12-5 |
£8.99 |
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| Peter Davies surveys the critical fortunes of
Hamlet the play and Hamlet the man through the ages. He takes
issue with the notion that Hamlet's tragedy is merely a matter
of personal inadequacy in the face of the task set him by the
Ghost, and demonstrates that the play is something much larger
- a complex exploration of the depths of human corruption and
evil as they are here exhibited in the world of the Danish court.
In so doing he also convincingly demonstrates that the character
of Ophelia has been consistently misinterpreted, underestimated
and underplayed by commentators, directors and actors. |
| Peter Davies is a staff writer at The Times. He
is the author of William
Blake, The Brontës,
Dylan Thomas and King
Lear in the Greenwich Exchange Student guide Literary Series. |
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