Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 15557
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- ISBN
- 9780691204512
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book offers a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in the English language. It does so by reading Hamlet through the poetic, educational, philosophical, political, rhetorical, and social discourses of Shakespeare’s day. Its scope is comprehensive: beyond detailed engagements with Shakespearean and early modern drama, analyses range from Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, and Boethius to Roger Ascham, Thomas Wilson, George Gascoigne, and Thomas Hobbes; by drawing on a complex archive of social and cultural history, it also reconstructs—for the first time—Hamlet’s status as a work suffused with the language and assumptions of early modern hunting.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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