LEADER 05066nam 2200817 450 001 9910825575503321 005 20220308021048.0 010 $a1-4008-4809-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400848096 035 $a(CKB)2670000000414217 035 $a(EBL)1275329 035 $a(OCoLC)857965860 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001054412 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11613286 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001054412 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11128229 035 $a(PQKB)10684773 035 $a(OCoLC)861532593 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37175 035 $a(DE-B1597)447095 035 $a(OCoLC)903295116 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400848096 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1275329 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10759466 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL516488 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1275329 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000414217 100 $a20130404d2013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnnu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHamlet in purgatory /$fStephen Greenblatt, with a new preface by the author 205 $aFirst Princeton classics edition. 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ :$cPrinceton University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (347 p.) 225 1 $aPrinceton classics 300 $aFirstitle pageinting, 2001. 300 $aFirstitle pageperback printing, 2002. 311 0 $a0-691-16024-4 311 0 $a1-299-85237-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$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 330 $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. 410 0$aPrinceton classic editions. 606 $aPurgatory in literature 606 $aChristianity and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aChristianity and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aEnglish drama (Tragedy)$xChristian influences 606 $aVoyages to the otherworld in literature 606 $aReligion in literature 606 $aGhosts in literature 606 $aTragedy 615 0$aPurgatory in literature. 615 0$aChristianity and literature$xHistory 615 0$aChristianity and literature$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish drama (Tragedy)$xChristian influences. 615 0$aVoyages to the otherworld in literature. 615 0$aReligion in literature. 615 0$aGhosts in literature. 615 0$aTragedy. 676 $a822.33 700 $aGreenblatt$b Stephen$f1943-$0175616 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825575503321 996 $aHamlet in purgatory$940729 997 $aUNINA