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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... classical Greece by E.R. Dodds.7 It is still very much in use but increasingly rejected as both inaccurate and oversimple by scholars who have given the matter close attention , such as Hugh Lloyd - Jones , Werner L. Gundersheimer ...
... classical Greece by E.R. Dodds.7 It is still very much in use but increasingly rejected as both inaccurate and oversimple by scholars who have given the matter close attention , such as Hugh Lloyd - Jones , Werner L. Gundersheimer ...
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... classical works such as Homer's Iliad , Sophocles's Ajax and Oedipus Rex , Euripides's Heracles and Seneca's Phaedra ; through Old Testament stories such as the Fall , Noah's drunkenness and nakedness , Tamar and Amnon , and ( from the ...
... classical works such as Homer's Iliad , Sophocles's Ajax and Oedipus Rex , Euripides's Heracles and Seneca's Phaedra ; through Old Testament stories such as the Fall , Noah's drunkenness and nakedness , Tamar and Amnon , and ( from the ...
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... classical and Christian notions of shame described below combined in the early modern period , and were part of the intellectual atmosphere that Shakespeare breathed . They influenced his conception of shame , and of the world , and ...
... classical and Christian notions of shame described below combined in the early modern period , and were part of the intellectual atmosphere that Shakespeare breathed . They influenced his conception of shame , and of the world , and ...
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... Classical shame The significance of shame in the classical period was recog- nised long before 1951 when , applying Benedict's theory , E.R. Dodds designated ancient Greek civilisation a ' shame - culture ' ( Dodds 1951 : 17-18 ) ...
... Classical shame The significance of shame in the classical period was recog- nised long before 1951 when , applying Benedict's theory , E.R. Dodds designated ancient Greek civilisation a ' shame - culture ' ( Dodds 1951 : 17-18 ) ...
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... classical shame . Shame is the motive force of The Iliad . Before the epic story has even begun , Paris has cuckolded Menelaus and abducted his wife , Helen . In Book 1 , Achilles withdraws to his tent , refusing to fight the Trojans ...
... classical shame . Shame is the motive force of The Iliad . Before the epic story has even begun , Paris has cuckolded Menelaus and abducted his wife , Helen . In Book 1 , Achilles withdraws to his tent , refusing to fight the Trojans ...
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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