Hamlet in Purgatory (Expanded Edition) (Princeton Classics): 4

by StephenGreenblatt (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2013

  $22.53

  Presents an 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. This book explores the adventure narratives, ghost stories, pilgrimages, and imagery by which a belief in a grisly prison house of souls had been shaped and reinforced in the Middle Ages.