{"product_id":"mousetrap-9781442651364","title":"Mousetrap","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is scarcely an element of \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e that has not received attention many times, yet both general reader and sophisticated critic would generally agree that the character of \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e and the full meanings of the play remain mysteries. No less a puzzle is the art of \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e, for, while the form of the art is elusive, the feeling of essential meaning is strong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Aldus hopes to enlarge our understanding of \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e and our appreciation of Shakespeare as a conscious artist of great subtlety by studying the play’s dramatic structure in the light of Aristotle’s \u003cem\u003ePoetics\u003c\/em\u003e and its meaning as literary myth in the light of Plato’s \u003cem\u003ePhaedrus\u003c\/em\u003e. This is a study of \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e as literary myth, a figurative mode of art in which structure is basic; yet primal myth, myth in the larger, non-literary sense, becomes part of it too, because the substance of \u003cem\u003eHamlet \u003c\/em\u003eseems to be of this kind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Al\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187501162839,"sku":"9781442651364","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mousetrap-9781442651364","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}