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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... already contained within the self ; Husserlian phenomenology makes the Ego the source of knowledge ; and the Heideggerian relation of beings to Being precludes anything outside ( Davis 1996 ) . The Levinasian subject exists only by ...
... already contained within the self ; Husserlian phenomenology makes the Ego the source of knowledge ; and the Heideggerian relation of beings to Being precludes anything outside ( Davis 1996 ) . The Levinasian subject exists only by ...
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... already that there is a deficit of moral shame today , though vicarious moral shame ( as was provoked in the UK by the murder of the toddler Jamie Bulger ) is not so rare : we are not prepared to feel it ourselves , but we are able to ...
... already that there is a deficit of moral shame today , though vicarious moral shame ( as was provoked in the UK by the murder of the toddler Jamie Bulger ) is not so rare : we are not prepared to feel it ourselves , but we are able to ...
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... above all else , we tend to think of shame as an illness or a disability . But in fact ( as I have suggested already ) shame is not so dispensable or simply pernicious . Williams points out that whereas guilt can 16 Introduction.
... above all else , we tend to think of shame as an illness or a disability . But in fact ( as I have suggested already ) shame is not so dispensable or simply pernicious . Williams points out that whereas guilt can 16 Introduction.
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... already remarked that the personal shame expressed in my quote from Zarathustra involved a loss of faith in the world at large . Hawthorne's Hester Prynne feels that the scarlet letter pinned to her breast for adultery has endowed her ...
... already remarked that the personal shame expressed in my quote from Zarathustra involved a loss of faith in the world at large . Hawthorne's Hester Prynne feels that the scarlet letter pinned to her breast for adultery has endowed her ...
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... already ) in our own century Rushdie's Shame and Coetzee's Disgrace . Shame affords the writer compelling material : the imme- diate physical detail of blushing and gestures of concealment , scenes of hiding and exposure , violence ...
... already ) in our own century Rushdie's Shame and Coetzee's Disgrace . Shame affords the writer compelling material : the imme- diate physical detail of blushing and gestures of concealment , scenes of hiding and exposure , violence ...
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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