| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Introduction: Hamlet within Hamlet -- 1. Hamlet, Humanism, and Performing the Self -- 2. Hamlet, Hunting, and the Nature of Things -- 3. Hamlet as Historian -- 4. Hamlet as Poet -- 5. Hamlet as Philosopher -- Conclusion. Shakespearean Tragedy and the Death of Humanism -- Appendix: How Old Is Hamlet? -- Bibliography -- Index -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE |
| Summary |
An acclaimed new interpretation of Shakespeare's HamletHamlet and the Vision of Darkness is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in the English language. By exploring Shakespeare's engagements with the humanist traditions of early modern England and Europe, Rhodri Lewis reveals a Hamlet unseen for centuries: an innovative, coherent, and exhilaratingly bleak tragedy in which the governing ideologies of Shakespeare's age are scrupulously upended. Recovering a work of far greater magnitude than the tragedy of a young man who cannot make up his mind, Lewis shows that in Hamlet, as in King Lear, Shakespeare confronts his audiences with a universe that received ideas are powerless to illuminate--and where everyone must find their own way through the dark |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-354) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 12, 2021) |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet
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Hamlet (Shakespeare, William) fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017003227 |
| ISBN |
9780691210926 |
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0691210926 |
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