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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