Frye, Roland Mushat — The Renaissance Hamlet: Issues and Responses in 1600
Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1984. Hardcover. Rust colored cloth, red-brown & illus. dust jacket, 398 pp. BW illus. "This authoritative and fascinating reappraisal of Hamlet reveals it to be even more exciting and rewarding than modern readers and playgoers realize. Since 1600, much of the play's original significance has been lost. Here a well-known scholar reconstructs Shakespeare's cultural milieu, showing what reactions he could expect from his audiences and why they found Hamlet so intensely stirring. [This] richly illustrated book will interest the general reader as well as the specialist." (dj). VG- (DJ has watermark on interior side but looks good from the outside; book itself is clean.) .
