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This book examines the ways that Classical and Renaissance epic poems often work against their expressed moral and political values. It combines a formal and tropological analysis that stresses difference and disjunction with a political analysis of the epic's figurative economy. It offers an interpretation of three epic poems - Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, and Spencer's Faerie Queene - that focuses on the way these texts make apparent the aesthetic, moral, and political difference that constitutes them, and sketches, in conclusion, two alternative resolutions of such division in Milton's...

This widely adopted critical edition presents the 1974 text of the play along with critical essays that read Hamlet from a variety of contemporary perspectives. With four essays new to this second edition the text is complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.