Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness

<p><b>An acclaimed new interpretation of Shakespeare's <i>Hamlet</i></b> <p/><i>Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness</i> 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 <i>Hamlet</i> 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 <i>Hamlet</i> as in <i>King Lear</i> 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.</p>