Shakespeare Hamlet

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by Paul A. Cantor and William Shakespeare

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published November 1990, 100 pages, paper

ISBN 0521349834

Hamlet's status as a tragic hero and the central enigma of the delayed revenge are considered in light of the play's historical position--at the crossroads of Christian tragedy and the Renaissance concept of heroic epic.