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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... King Lear an analysis of the limitations of Roman shame in Antony and 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 ...
... King Lear an analysis of the limitations of Roman shame in Antony and 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 ...
... King Lear 173 8 Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus 208 9 Conclusion 224 Notes References Index 247 255 265.
... King Lear . Far from accepting this effort towards critical objectivity as politically irresponsible , I see it as attempting exactly that rigorous concession to other- ness which is the foundation of justice . It is unnecessary to ...
... King Lear , The History of King Lear , Shakespeare uses the telling phrase ' sovereign shame ' ( 17.43 ) . Today this idea of the supremacy of shame seems remote . In a culture which emphasises personal satisfaction above all else , we ...
Contents
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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 |