Hamlet and the vision of darkness - rhodri lewis

An acclaimed new interpretation of Shakespeares Hamlet Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in the English language.

By exploring Shakespeares 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 Shakespeares 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.