Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness / / Rhodri Lewis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Lewis, Rhodri,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)

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.

Table of 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