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. The volume provides: · an account of previous traditions of shame and of the Renaissance context · a thematic map of the rich manifestations of both masculine and feminine shame in Shakespeare · detailed readings of Hamlet, Othello, and 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 the way to the world outside the self. It establishes the continued vitality and relevance of Shakespeare and offers a fresh and exciting way of seeing his tragedies. |
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... action and not just words , and because it involves agonists and an audience . The raised stage pillories any character degraded or humiliated by the plot . In particular the tragic hero , as a heightened representative brought low ...
... action and not just words , and because it involves agonists and an audience . The raised stage pillories any character degraded or humiliated by the plot . In particular the tragic hero , as a heightened representative brought low ...
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... action ; praiseworthy in a younger man , but culpable in his elder , yet only because he should never give himself occasion to feel it ( Aristotle 1988 : 169-70 ) . And for Cicero , a prescribed author for Elizabethans , the emphasis is ...
... action ; praiseworthy in a younger man , but culpable in his elder , yet only because he should never give himself occasion to feel it ( Aristotle 1988 : 169-70 ) . And for Cicero , a prescribed author for Elizabethans , the emphasis is ...
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... action questioned by Shakespeare's Brutus in The Rape of Lucrece.4 In spite of the distinctions and didactic intentions of the philosophers , classical poets and playwrights are most inter- ested in the visceral experience , the ...
... action questioned by Shakespeare's Brutus in The Rape of Lucrece.4 In spite of the distinctions and didactic intentions of the philosophers , classical poets and playwrights are most inter- ested in the visceral experience , the ...
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... action , and in Ajax and Heracles is explicitly associated with the supernatural , is a mysterious , possibly metaphysical power which strikes at random to reveal the brittle insecurity of human being . Yet if it is a religious ...
... action , and in Ajax and Heracles is explicitly associated with the supernatural , is a mysterious , possibly metaphysical power which strikes at random to reveal the brittle insecurity of human being . Yet if it is a religious ...
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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 |
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