Shakespeare Studies

Shows how illustrated editions and paintings of the plays were originally produced and read as critical, social and political statements..

Shakespeare's famous play, Hamlet , has been the subject of more scholarly analysis and criticism than any other work of literature in human history. For all of its generally acknowledged virtues, however, it has also been treated as problematic in a raft of ways. In Philosophy and the Puzzles of Hamlet , Leon Craig explains that the most oft-cited problems and criticisms are actually solvable puzzles. Through a close reading of the philosophical problems presented in Hamlet , Craig attempts to provide solutions to these puzzles. The posing of puzzles, some more conspicuous, others less so, is.