Hamlet
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Bloom's major literary characters; Major literary characters
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Hamlet (Legendary character)
Description: Presents a selection of criticism on Shakespeare's best known protagonist by such authors as Harold C. Goddard, William Empson, Northrop Frye, and Julia Lupton.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Harold Bloom; title: Hamlet / William Hazlitt; title: Hamlet / A.C. Bradley; title: Hamlet / Harold C. Goddard; title: Superposed plays : Hamlet / Richard A. Lanham; title: Hamlet / William Empson; title: Hamlet / Northrop Frye; title: Readiness, ripeness : Hamlet, Lear / Yves Bonnefoy; title: Truant dispositions : Hamlet and Machiavelli / Julia Lupton; title: The melancholy Dane / Bert O. States; title: Hamlet and the ghost of purgatory : intimations of killing the father / Anthony Low; title: A king of infinite space / John Lee.