In this useful guide, Paul Cantor provides a clearly structured introduction to Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy. Cantor examines Hamlet’s status as tragic hero and the central enigma of the delayed revenge in the light of the play’s Renaissance context. He offers students a lucid discussion of the dramatic and poetic techniques used in the play. In the final chapter he deals with the uniquely varied reception of Hamlet on the stage and in literature generally from the seventeenth century to the present day.
In a companion course to Famous Romans, classics scholar and master storyteller J. Rufus Fears examines a gallery of fascinating characters who shaped the story of Greece from the Trojan War through the rise of Rome.
One of the most instructive and intriguing ways to learn history is through biography.
Reading folktales from other countries is an engaging way to learn about other cultures and other people. Folktales present readers both a window into another culture and a mirror reflecting certain aspects of their own culture. In the...
Reading folktales from other countries is an engaging way to learn about other cultures and other people. Folktales present readers both a window into another culture and a mirror reflecting certain aspects of their own culture. In the...
Reading folktales from other countries is an engaging way to learn about other cultures and other people. Folktales present readers both a window into another culture and a mirror reflecting certain aspects of their own culture. In the...
