Hamlet in Purgatory
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: S. l
Number of pages: 320
Description: "Stephen Greenblatt sets out to explain 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."--BOOK JACKET.