Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness

By Rhodri Lewis

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691204519
• ISBN13: 9780691204512
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"