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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aGreenblatt, Stephen _eautore
245	1	0	_aHamlet in Purgatory : _bExpanded Edition / _cStephen Greenblatt.
250			_aExpanded edition with a New preface by the author
264		1	_aPrinceton, NJ : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2013]
264		4	_c©2014
300			_a1 online resource (352 p.) : _b18 halftones
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	0		_aPrinceton Classics ; _v103
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tCONTENTS -- _tILLUSTRATIONS -- _tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- _tPREFACE -- _tPROLOGUE -- _tCHAPTER ONE. A Poet's Fable -- _tCHAPTER TWO. Imagining Purgatory -- _tCHAPTER THREE. The Rights of Memory -- _tCHAPTER FOUR. Staging Ghosts -- _tCHAPTER FIVE. Remember Me -- _tEPILOGUE -- _tNOTES -- _tINDEX
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aIn Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into 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. In the mid-sixteenth century, English authorities abruptly changed the relationship between the living and dead. Declaring that Purgatory was a false "poem," they abolished the institutions and banned the practices that Christians relied on to ease the passage to Heaven for themselves and their dead loved ones. Greenblatt explores the fantastic 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. He probes the psychological benefits as well as the high costs of this belief and of its demolition. With the doctrine of Purgatory and the elaborate practices that grew up around it, the church had provided a powerful method of negotiating with the dead. The Protestant attack on Purgatory destroyed this method for most people in England, but it did not eradicate the longings and fears that Catholic doctrine had for centuries focused and exploited. In his strikingly original interpretation, Greenblatt argues that the human desires to commune with, assist, and be rid of the dead were transformed by Shakespeare--consummate conjurer that he was--into the substance of several of his plays, above all the weirdly powerful Hamlet. Thus, the space of Purgatory became the stage haunted by literature's most famous ghost. This book constitutes an extraordinary feat that could have been accomplished by only Stephen Greenblatt. It is at once a deeply satisfying reading of medieval religion, an innovative interpretation of the apparitions that trouble Shakespeare's tragic heroes, and an exploration of how a culture can be inhabited by its own spectral leftovers. This expanded Princeton Classics edition includes a new preface by the author.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650		0	_aChristianity and literature _zEngland _vHistory _v16th century.
650		0	_aChristianity and literature _zEngland _vHistory _v17th century.
650		0	_aEnglish drama (Tragedy) _vChristian influences.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare. _2bisacsh
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