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Focusing on Shakespeare's "Hamlet" as foremost a study of grief, this book offers an analysis of its protagonist as the archetype of the modern hero. It situates "Hamlet" within the context of family and mourning as it was presented in other revenge tragedies of Shakespeare's time.

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"Alexander Welsh brings such depth and focus to his investigation of Hamlet, particularly to his analyses of the hero's influence on some major novels, that this book is well worth reading. Like all Welsh's works, this one is written with acumen and style."—Jonathan Bate, University of Liverpool

Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments ix CHAPTER ONE Medieval Hamlet Gains a Family 3 CHAPTER TWO Hamlet's Mourning and Revenge Tragedy 26 CHAPTER THREE History, as between Goethe's Hamlet and Scott's 71 CHAPTER FOUR Hamlet's Expectations, Pip's Great Guilt 102 CHAPTER FIVE Hamlet Decides to Be a Modernist 140 Index 175

Hamlet in His Modern Guises

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 23 January 2001
      ISBN-13 9780691050935
      978-0691050935
      ISBN-10 0691050937

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Focusing on Shakespeare's "Hamlet" as foremost a study of grief, this book offers an analysis of its protagonist as the archetype of the modern hero. It situates "Hamlet" within the context of family and mourning as it was presented in other revenge tragedies of Shakespeare's time.

      Trade Review
      "Alexander Welsh brings such depth and focus to his investigation of Hamlet, particularly to his analyses of the hero's influence on some major novels, that this book is well worth reading. Like all Welsh's works, this one is written with acumen and style."—Jonathan Bate, University of Liverpool

      Table of Contents
      Preface and Acknowledgments ix CHAPTER ONE Medieval Hamlet Gains a Family 3 CHAPTER TWO Hamlet's Mourning and Revenge Tragedy 26 CHAPTER THREE History, as between Goethe's Hamlet and Scott's 71 CHAPTER FOUR Hamlet's Expectations, Pip's Great Guilt 102 CHAPTER FIVE Hamlet Decides to Be a Modernist 140 Index 175

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