Politics and Genre in Hamlet

By Adrian A. Husain

This is a historicist study constituting a significant departure from the New Historicist or "cultural" approach to Shakespeare. It examines the question of genre in relation to identity, time and power in the play against the backdrop of the Renaissance in Europe. It looks at identity as a typically Renaissance phenomenon: a theatrical construct alternating between the Machiavellian and the Castiglionesque.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195979095
• ISBN13: 9780195979091
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 64 Pages