Beschreibung:
"Beyond its brilliant illumination of Hamlet, Stephen Greenblatt's book uses historical evidence to probe the nature of human memory--by nature insistent, contradictory, in every sense haunted--as it copes with the stark, yet mysterious reality of death. With a rare combination of learning, imagination and grace Greenblatt has created an exciting work of scholarship, alert to the ways a great work of art can both resemble and transform other modes of discourse and perception."--Robert Pinsky
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi PREFACE xiii PROLOGUE 3 CHAPTER ONE A Poet's Fable 10 CHAPTER TWO Imagining Purgatory 47 CHAPTER THREE The Rights of Memory 102 CHAPTER FOUR Staging Ghosts 151 CHAPTER FIVE Remember Me 205 EPILOGUE 258 NOTES 263 INDEX 315