Imagining Culture
Subtitle: Essays in Early Modern History and Literature (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780815323976
Subjects: Cultural studies; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; World history: c 1500 to c 1750; Comparative Literature; Literary Criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Literature and history; Literature, Comparative
First sentence: When Hamlet compares a hawk and a handsaw, he is feigning madness north - northwest to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who accede to the prince's comparisons to humour them, to seek out information for the king and queen and to show some deference to Hamlet owing to their different social positions (II.ii.378-79).