Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness

LEWIS,RHODRI

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Author
LEWIS,RHODRI
Publish Date
04/01/2020
Book Type
paperback
Number of Pages
392
Publisher Name
PUPRESS
ISBN-10
0691204519
ISBN-13
9780691204512
citemno
231278
SKU
9780691204512

Description

An acclaimed new interpretation of Shakespeare's Hamlet

Hamlet 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.