JAMES SHAPIRO REVIEWS RHODRI LEWIS's "HAMLET & The VISION of DARKNESS"
James Shapiro has a review of Rhodri Lewis's "Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness" in the New York Review of books. I follow Lewis on Twitter, have corresponded with him a bit, and am looking forward especially to his understanding of falconry terminology in Hamlet. Some other reviews have been less generous than Shapiro's, and I'm sure I may disagree with Lewis on a number of his conclusions;
but a rich diversity of opinions, exploring and testing things that as yet may have gone untested, is essential if scholarly conversations are going to advance. This review is a helpful one to read in part because of how it offers a glimpse of the history of scholarly opinion on Hamlet, and how critical approaches to literature can also reflect the critic's relation to their own moment in history, necessarily including its political aspects.
Highly recommended reading.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/04/19/the-question-of-hamlet/
#Hamlet #shakespeare #literature #renaissance #earlymodern #elizabethan #tudor #literarycriticism #literaryhistory
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Links to a description of my book project:
On LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/eJGBtqV
On this blog: https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2017/05/hamlets-bible-my-book-project-im.html
[Originally posted around the week of 4/9/18
on LinkedIn]
James Shapiro has a review of Rhodri Lewis's "Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness" in the New York Review of books. I follow Lewis on Twitter, have corresponded with him a bit, and am looking forward especially to his understanding of falconry terminology in Hamlet. Some other reviews have been less generous than Shapiro's, and I'm sure I may disagree with Lewis on a number of his conclusions;
but a rich diversity of opinions, exploring and testing things that as yet may have gone untested, is essential if scholarly conversations are going to advance. This review is a helpful one to read in part because of how it offers a glimpse of the history of scholarly opinion on Hamlet, and how critical approaches to literature can also reflect the critic's relation to their own moment in history, necessarily including its political aspects.
Highly recommended reading.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/04/19/the-question-of-hamlet/
#Hamlet #shakespeare #literature #renaissance #earlymodern #elizabethan #tudor #literarycriticism #literaryhistory
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Links to a description of my book project:
On LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/eJGBtqV
On this blog: https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2017/05/hamlets-bible-my-book-project-im.html
[Originally posted around the week of 4/9/18
on LinkedIn]
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