An Interpretation of Hamlet Based on Recent Developments in Cognitive Studies

“Professor Tamaya adds, in this study of the play, yet another significant, thought-provoking and compelling approach to Hamlet, an approach which effectively brings intellectual scholarship on the play into the twenty-first century. . . . Not only does her study break new ground by using a contemporary cognitive studies approach to reexamine an oft-studied work, but it also effectively addresses the relationship of this approach to other major schools of Shakespearean criticism, and it relates the approach to the cultural influences at work when the play was written, particularly the artistic theatrical interest in revenge tragedy and the philosophical fascination with melancholy that shape the content of the play. Finally, all of this is accomplished in a jargon-free, lucid prose that Professor Tamaya has exhibited in her previous writings. . . ” – Robert Bishoff

Table of contents:
Foreword by Robert Bishoff
Preface; Introduction
1. Hamlet and the “richness of the real”
2. Hamlet and Mediated Reality
3. Hamlet as Homo Ludens
4. Hamlet’s Expressive Style
Bibliography; Index