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Reviewed on December 15, 2007
Hundreds of books have been published about Shakespeare's Hamlet. Hunt (Shakespeare, North Carolina State Univ.), who has twice been a fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, here provides a solid, useful introduction to the play, along with a summation of 400 years of literary criticism. He begins with a history of the inherited material Shakespeare used to inform Hamlet, then discusses the critical and interpretive problems r...Log In or Sign Up to Read More