Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness

Rhodri Lewis

ISBN 10: 0691204519 / ISBN 13: 9780691204512

Edité par Princeton University Press Apr 2020, 2020

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Neuware - 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.

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• Titre: Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness
• Éditeur: Princeton University Press Apr 2020
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0691204519
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780691204512
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 234 L x 152 H x 25 P (en millimètres) 234 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 25 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 635 grammes

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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.

À propos de l?auteur

Rhodri Lewis is Senior Research Scholar in English at Princeton University. He is the author of Language, Mind, and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke and William Petty on the Order of Nature.