Hamlet and the vision of darkness / Rhodri Lewis.

Contents: Introduction: Hamlet within Hamlet -- 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 Philosopher -- The Good, the Bad and the Boethian -- More Things in Heaven and Earth -- Being, Nothingness, and Inconsequentiality -- Dull Revenge -- Rough-Hewn Providence -- Conclusion: Shakespearean Tragedy and the Death of Humanism.