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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... effect of this will be to surprise my readers into fresh relationship with Shakespeare's text and to set their minds moving in different as well as similar directions . It will be apparent that - even though a student 4 Introduction.
... effect of this will be to surprise my readers into fresh relationship with Shakespeare's text and to set their minds moving in different as well as similar directions . It will be apparent that - even though a student 4 Introduction.
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... effect . This paucity of human being is affirmed by psychoanalysis , and the conse- quence for the analysand is existential shame : Freud sees the self as endlessly dissolving into the anarchy of the unconscious ; the French feminist ...
... effect . This paucity of human being is affirmed by psychoanalysis , and the conse- quence for the analysand is existential shame : Freud sees the self as endlessly dissolving into the anarchy of the unconscious ; the French feminist ...
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... effects of blushing , fluster and loss of control . It brings a strong sense of exposure , producing an urgent desire to be concealed and hidden . It generates the wish not to be what one is or has become , which in extreme cases may ...
... effects of blushing , fluster and loss of control . It brings a strong sense of exposure , producing an urgent desire to be concealed and hidden . It generates the wish not to be what one is or has become , which in extreme cases may ...
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... effects . Shame requires renegotiation of the subject's relationship with itself ; guilt requires negotiation with the party offended , usually by accepting punishment from it or offering some other compensation . Guilt is the ...
... effects . Shame requires renegotiation of the subject's relationship with itself ; guilt requires negotiation with the party offended , usually by accepting punishment from it or offering some other compensation . Guilt is the ...
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... effect of shame - how it wrecks otherwise exemplary lives . As a dramatist , Shakespeare predictably shares this interest in shame's spectac- ular power . It is conspicuous that Ajax , Oedipus and Heracles are all more or less ...
... effect of shame - how it wrecks otherwise exemplary lives . As a dramatist , Shakespeare predictably shares this interest in shame's spectac- ular power . It is conspicuous that Ajax , Oedipus and Heracles are all more or less ...
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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