Language: English
Author: R.W. Desai
Description: The essays in this collection were originally published in Hamlet Studies, the only international journal devoted exclusively to research on a single literary text, now in its twenty-third year of publication. Drawing on a variety of theoretical frameworks, the essays reflect a broad spectrum of critical responses to Hamlet. Some adopt traditional approaches, while others are poststructuralist, collectively illuminating enduring questions about Hamlet’s apparent delay, his introspection, relationships with other characters, and the ethical and moral issues he raises from the eighteenth century to the present.