Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness (eBook)

Rhodri Lewis (Autor)

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2020
392 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21092-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.5.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: adolescence • Aeschylus • Ambiguity • Anthropomorphism • Aristotle • augury • Censure • Cicero • Claudian • Couplet • Criticism • Dante Alighieri • Decorum • De officiis • De rerum natura • Didacticism • Dramaturgy • Emblem • Equanimity • Explanation • Fiction • Font Bureau • fortinbras • Gabriel Harvey • Genre • Gertrude and Claudius • Gertrude (Hamlet) • Hamlet • hamlet's father • Handbook • Hieronimo • Illustration • Irony • J. (newspaper) • King Lear • Laertes • Laertes (Hamlet) • Literary criticism • Literary Theory • Literature • Love's Labour's Lost • Lucretius • Macduff (Macbeth) • Machiavellianism • Mannerism • matthew carter • narrative • Nicomachean Ethics • Parody • Persona • Philosopher • Philosophy • piety • pity • P. J. Conkwright • Plautus • Playwright • Poet • Poetry • Polonius • primary source • prince hamlet • Prose • Quentin Skinner • Quibble (plot device) • Quintilian • REGICIDE • Revenge play • Revenge Tragedy • rhetoric • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (play) • Satire • Saxo Grammaticus • Self-Image • shakespearean tragedy • soliloquy • Sources of Hamlet • Stephen Greenblatt • Subjectivity • Suggestion • Synecdoche • terence • Textual criticism • Theatrum mundi • theory • The Spanish Tragedy • The Various • Thing (assembly) • Thomas Kyd • Tragedy • treatise • Trivium • Troilus and Cressida • Typeface • Ur-Hamlet • William Shakespeare • Writer • Writing • Yorick
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21092-6 / 0691210926
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21092-6 / 9780691210926