The Elizabethan Hamlet / Arthur McGee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGee, Arthur, 1922-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

ix, 211 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1987.

Summary:

This original and provocative reinterpretation of Hamlet presents the play as the original audiences would have viewed it-a much bleaker, stronger, and more deeply religious play than it has usually been assumed to be. Arthur McGee draws a picture of a Devil controlled Hamlet in the damnable Catholic court of Elsinore, and he shows that the evil natures of the Ghost and of Hamlet himself were understood and accepted by the Protestant audiences of the day. In an epilogue, McGee sums up the history of criticism of Hamlet, demonstrating the process by which the play gradually lost its Elizabethan bite.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 198-205.

ISBN:

0300039883

OCLC:

15652413