Shame in ShakespeareRoutledge, 2012 M09 10 - 288 pages One of the most intense and painful of our human passions, shame is typically seen in contemporary culture as a disability or a disease to be cured. Shakespeare's ultimately positive portrayal of the emotion challenges this view. Drawing on philosophers and theorists of shame, Shame in Shakespeare analyses the shame and humiliation suffered by the tragic hero, providing not only a new approach to Shakespeare but a committed and provocative argument for reclaiming shame. |
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... Cleopatra and Coriolanus a polemical discussion of the fortunes of shame in modern literature after Shakespeare. The book presents a Shakespearean vision of shame as the way to the world outside the self. It establishes the continued ...
... Cleopatra and Coriolanus a polemical discussion of the fortunes of shame in modern literature after Shakespeare . The book presents a Shakespearean vision of shame as the way to the world outside the self . It establishes the continued ...
... 2 Shame before Shakespeare 3 Shame in the Renaissance 然 ㄨ ˋ ix xi 1 24 41 4 Shame in Shakespeare 74 5 Hamlet 109 6 Othello 136 7 King Lear 173 8 Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus 208 9 Conclusion 224 Notes References Index 247 255 265.
... Cleopatra.1 For Aristotle , who particularly influenced thinking about shame in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , shame is , expectedly , a more prosaic affair : a feeling , not a virtue , defined as fear of ill - repute , which ...
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Contents
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24 | |
Shame in the Renaissance | 41 |
Shame in Shakespeare | 74 |
Hamlet | 109 |
Othello | 136 |
King Lear | 173 |
Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus | 208 |
Conclusion | 224 |
Notes | 247 |
References | 255 |
Index | 265 |