Hamlet: Fold on Fold

by Gabriel Josipovici

William Shakespeare's Hamlet is probably the best-known and most commented upon work of literature in Western culture. The paradox is that it is at once utterly familiar and strangely elusive--very like our own selves, argues Gabriel Josipovici in this stimulating and original study. Moreover, our desire to master this elusiveness, to "pluck the heart out of its mystery," as Hamlet himself says, precisely mirrors what is going on in the play;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030021832X
• ISBN13: 9780300218329
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.7"