Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet

Ratcliffe, Stephen

ISBN 10: 1933996145 / ISBN 13: 9781933996141

Verlag: Counterpath Press, 2010

Book cover has light rubbing, modest edge & corner wear, fold crease to outer back corner, and a bit of sticker residue on front, otherwise overall still looks presentable. 2-3 light stains to textblock. Tight binding, pages are clean and crisp. Overall wear is pretty much only cosmetic, a sturdy and mostly clean copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1026286

Inhaltsangabe:

Drama. Literary Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. READING THE UNSEEN: (OFFSTAGE) HAMLET is about the presence and significance of offstage action in Hamlet, things we hear about in words but do not see performed physically onstage--things like King Hamlet's murder "while [he] was sleeping in [his] orchard," Ophelia's death in "the glassy stream," Hamlet's visit to Ophelia's "closet ... with his doublet all unbraced," Gertrude and Claudius having sex "in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed." In a series of brilliantly original "close readings," Ratcliffe examines how it is that passages such as these make physically absent things verbally "present," how they "show" us things we do not actually see, how they bring us face to face with the "Words, words, words" that are what Hamlet is, he argues, most of all about.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet
Verlag: Counterpath Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good