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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... examples of the survival of shame have been noted above , and its partial disappearance from modern culture , far from being its death- knell , can be seen as itself a form of abashed concealment . I have written this book in full ...
... examples of the survival of shame have been noted above , and its partial disappearance from modern culture , far from being its death- knell , can be seen as itself a form of abashed concealment . I have written this book in full ...
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... examples will be taken from diverse sources , this will introduce the kind of picture of shame we will subsequently find in ... example , a soldier never runs away , but I have done so : I am no true soldier ' . This negative self ...
... examples will be taken from diverse sources , this will introduce the kind of picture of shame we will subsequently find in ... example , a soldier never runs away , but I have done so : I am no true soldier ' . This negative self ...
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... example of the ' total shame ' of disintegration : With you I broke whatever my heart revered ; I overthrew all ... examples above begin to show ) is a richly varied phenomenon , and there are many fine distinc- tions to be made . Its ...
... example of the ' total shame ' of disintegration : With you I broke whatever my heart revered ; I overthrew all ... examples above begin to show ) is a richly varied phenomenon , and there are many fine distinc- tions to be made . Its ...
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... example : In a moment of cowardice , we let someone down ; we feel guilty because we have let them down , ashamed because we have contemptibly fallen short of what we might have hoped of ourselves . ( Williams 1993 : 91 ) Shame and ...
... example : In a moment of cowardice , we let someone down ; we feel guilty because we have let them down , ashamed because we have contemptibly fallen short of what we might have hoped of ourselves . ( Williams 1993 : 91 ) Shame and ...
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... example of this . After her rape in The Unfortunate Traveller , Thomas Nashe's Heraclide notes , while gazing in the mirror ' to see if her sins were not written on her forehead ' , ' Myself do but behold myself , and yet I blush ...
... example of this . After her rape in The Unfortunate Traveller , Thomas Nashe's Heraclide notes , while gazing in the mirror ' to see if her sins were not written on her forehead ' , ' Myself do but behold myself , and yet I blush ...
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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