Otherworldly HamletNo other book on Hamlet has yet to consider the way in which the play in its four major aspects of Sorrow, Sexuality, Revenge, and Death, consistently reflects the otherworldly direction of Hamlet's thought and experience ... the elegant and subtle prose lends force and dignity to the argument ... a remarkable and provocative contribution to Shakespeare Studies. {Corona Sharp, English Studies in Canada} |
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A.C. Bradley action ality ambiguity Andrea's associated audience Boccaccio Claudius complex contrast deciding capacity dramatic dream dream-vision elder Hamlet Elizabethan emphasis encroachment evil expression extraordinary fact faith Faustus finally Gertrude Gertrude's grave grief Hamlet's behaviour Hamlet's experience Hamlet's father Heaven Helen Gardner hell heroism Horatio horrid Howard Baker ideal revenge imagination implied import of Hamlet's intensity journey judgment Jump London Kyd's Laertes Lamord Levin literal London lust Luther marriage mastery ment merely metaphysical Mirror for Magistrates Mirror poets mother murder narrative Nicholas Brooke offences Ophelia episode otherworldly experience outrage paradoxical passage passion play play's Polonius prayer-scene Priam projection psychological Pyrrhus reality reduction relation revelation Roy Walker Sackville Sackville's Induction scene sense Shakespeare Shakespearean Tragedy significance sorrow Spanish Tragedy speaking ghost speech struggle suggestion Thomas Kyd thou tion tradition tragic ultimately University Press vision of human visionary destiny Wilson Knight