HAMLET. FOLD ON FOLD

William Shakespeare's Hamlet is probably the best-known and most commented upon work of literature in Western culture. The paradox i s that it is at once utterly familiar and strangely elusive-very like our own selves, argues Gabriel Josipovici in this stimulating and original study. Moreover, our desire to master this elusiveness, to pluck the heart out of its mystery, as Hamlet himself says, precisely mirrors what is going on in the play/ and what Shakespeare's play demonstrates is that to conceive human character (and wo rks of art...[Leer más]