Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet by Stephen Ratcliffe

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Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet by Stephen Ratcliffe

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Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet by Stephen Ratcliffe

Drama. Literary Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. READING THE UNSEN: (OFSTAGE) HAMLET is about the presence and significance of offstage action in Hamlet, things we hear about in words but do not see performed physically onstage--things like King Hamlet's murder while he] was sleeping in his] orchard, Ophelia's death in the glassy stream, Hamlet's visit to Ophelia's closet . with his doublet all unbraced, Gertrude and Claudius having sex in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed. In a series of brilliantly original close readings, Ratcliffe examines how it is that passages such as these make physically absent things verbally present, how they show us things we do not actually see, how they bring us face to face with the Words, words, words that are what Hamlet is, he argues, most of all about.

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ISBN 13 9781933996141
ISBN 10 1933996145
Title Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet
Author Stephen Ratcliffe
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Counterpath Press
Year published 2009-10-15
Number of pages 200
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.