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Hamlet and the vision of darkness
Lewis, Rhodri, author.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020
Bibliographic Information
| Format: | Book |
|---|---|
| Author: | Lewis, Rhodri, 1976- |
| Subject: | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 |
| Publication Year: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020 |
| ISBN: | 9780691204512 0691204519 |
| Notes: | "First paperback printing 2020" -- Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-354) and index. Chapter 1: Hamlet, humanism, and performing the self -- Humanism, self-knowledge, and public living -- Moral dislocation and the unsettled self -- Chapter 2: Hamlet, hunting, and the nature of things -- Establishing the hunt -- Pursuit -- Commerce of cunning -- Transforming Saxo Grammaticus -- Faking it: huntsmen, hypocrites, and seeming virtue -- Chapter 3: Hamlet as historian -- Rights of memory and the history of the Danes -- The dozy arithmetic of memory -- Memory, reason, and the eyes of the mind -- Remember me -- Memory, recollection, and the ars memoriae -- Metaphor and misrepresentation -- A slave to what memory? -- Chapter 4: Hamlet as poet -- A passionate speech -- The mirror up to nature -- Foul imaginations -- Play-within-a-play -- Very like a poet -- Chapter 5: Hamlet as a philosopher -- The good, the bad, and the Boethian -- More things in heaven and earth -- Being, nothingness, and inconsequentiality -- Dull revenge -- Rough-hewn providence -- Shakespearean tragedy and the death of humanism. |
| Course: |
ENG320 |
Availability at HKSYU Library
| Location | Call number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| English Book (4/F) | 822.33 LEW 2020 | Available |