Hamlet In Purgatory: Expanded Edition

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Hamlet In Purgatory: Expanded EditionISBN13:9780691160245ISBN10:0691160244Author:Greenblatt, Stephen (Author)Description:In Hamlet In Purgatory, Renowned Literary Scholar Stephen Greenblatt Delves Into 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 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 With The Doctrine Of Purgatory And The Elaborate Practices That Grew Up Around It, The Church Had Provided A Powerful Method Of Negotiating With The Dead The Protestant Attack On Purgatory Destroyed This Method For Most People In England, But It Did Not Eradicate The Longings And Fears That Catholic Doctrine Had For Centuries Focused And Exploited In His Strikingly Original Interpretation, Greenblatt Argues That The Human Desires To Commune With, Assist, And Be Rid Of The Dead Were Transformed By Shakespeare--Consummate Conjurer That He Was--Into The Substance Of Several Of His Plays, Above All The Weirdly Powerful Hamlet Thus, The Space Of Purgatory Became The Stage Haunted By Literature's Most Famous Ghost This Book Constitutes An Extraordinary Feat That Could Have Been Accomplished By Only Stephen Greenblatt It Is At Once A Deeply Satisfying Reading Of Medieval Religion, An Innovative Interpretation Of The Apparitions That Trouble Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes, And An Exploration Of How A Culture Can Be Inhabited By Its Own Spectral Leftovers This Expanded Princeton Classics Edition Includes A New Preface By The Author Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:PRINCETON UNIV PRPublication Date:2013-10-06Weight:0.75 lbsDimensions:0.92'' H x 8.51'' L x 5.6'' WNumber of Pages:322Language:English

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