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Copyright ©2017 by Princeton University Press
Published by Princeton University Press,
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In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press,
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Cover art: Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d’Antonio), A Hunting Scene, c. 1494–1500. Gift of Robert Gordon, 1875 / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Cover design by Leslie Flis
Excerpt from “Sprich auch du,” Paul Celan, Von Schwelle zu Schwelle © 1955, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munchen, in der Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH.
Excerpt from Seven Types of Ambiguity copyright William Empson, 1930.
Excerpt from How It Is by Samuel Beckett, English translation copyright © 1964 by Grove Press, Inc. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. and Faber & Faber Ltd. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited.
Excerpt from “Good Writers and Good Readers” from Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov. Copyright © 1980 by the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
All Rights Reserved
First paperback printing, 2020
Paperback ISBN 978-0-691-20451-2
The Library of Congress has cataloged the cloth edition as follows:
Names: Lewis, Rhodri, 1976– author.
Title: Hamlet and the vision of darkness / Rhodri Lewis.
Description: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: lccn 2017003227 | isbn 9780691166841 (hardback : acid-free paper)
Subjects: lcsh: Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616. Hamlet.
Classification: lcc pr2807 .l47 2017 | ddc 822.3/3—dc23 LC record available at
https://lccn.loc.gov/2017003227
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available
This book has been composed in Miller
Printed on acid-free paper. ∞
Printed in the United States of America
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