Elsinore’s Star Bullshitter
Michael Dobson, 13 September 2018
Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness
by Rhodri Lewis.
Princeton, 365 pp., £30, November 2017,978 0 691 16684 1 Show More
by Rhodri Lewis.
Princeton, 365 pp., £30, November 2017,
“... to reconstruct exactly what the play meant when it first appeared, the daunting task undertaken by Rhodri Lewis in Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness. At some point around 1600, when the play was still new, the Cambridge scholar Gabriel Harvey was already noting (in a blank space at the end of his copy of Chaucer) that Shakespeare’s Lucrece ‘and his ... ”