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It's not that this book is bad. As an idea for an anthology it's interesting, it's just that it's very brief. Too brief to be possessed of any considerable depth. It definitely reads as something compiled by an academic, and while Professor Bruce may find this fascinating, that interest doesn't transfer when reading. This is probably due to a lack of context we as readers would have about the time period; a context which Bruce would have. One which would, indeed, make clear the value of these tales insofar as they underscore/highlight attitudes within the historico-cultutal situation from which they spring. As they are presented, we get mere snippets of this. While the book did climax somewhat by deepening the understanding of Hamlet, and some stories were interesting in and of themselves, for the most part this work is nothing remarkable. It is a collection of curious, one which is by no means worthless, but only of niche appeal.