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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... Emily Dickinson Many of Shakespeare's characters , it is true , are constrained to take stock of things of which they are bitterly ashamed . L.C. Knights Contents 1 General editor's preface Acknowledgements Introduction 2 Shame before.
... Emily Dickinson Many of Shakespeare's characters , it is true , are constrained to take stock of things of which they are bitterly ashamed . L.C. Knights Contents 1 General editor's preface Acknowledgements Introduction 2 Shame before.
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... characters : in Levinas's phrase , ' ethics is first politics26 - it discovers the values on which politics must build . A study of Shakespearean shame necessitates certain preliminaries . Since shame is a slippery thing often misunder ...
... characters : in Levinas's phrase , ' ethics is first politics26 - it discovers the values on which politics must build . A study of Shakespearean shame necessitates certain preliminaries . Since shame is a slippery thing often misunder ...
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... writers have sometimes made the closeness of death and shame explicit : as we shall see , several of Shakespeare's characters perish of pure , unaided shame , as does William Golding's Reverend Colley in Rites 20 Introduction.
... writers have sometimes made the closeness of death and shame explicit : as we shall see , several of Shakespeare's characters perish of pure , unaided shame , as does William Golding's Reverend Colley in Rites 20 Introduction.
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... character degraded or humiliated by the plot . In particular the tragic hero , as a heightened representative brought low , enacts and suffers an experience of shame which is imaginable to , and significant for , the society represented ...
... character degraded or humiliated by the plot . In particular the tragic hero , as a heightened representative brought low , enacts and suffers an experience of shame which is imaginable to , and significant for , the society represented ...
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... character or deliberate 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 ...
... character or deliberate 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 ...
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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