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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... Gibson points out in The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí , it is part of the Spanish surrealist's achievement to have provided a unique window on shame . Dali's canvases are thickly populated with figures of ashamed men Introduction 9.
... Gibson points out in The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí , it is part of the Spanish surrealist's achievement to have provided a unique window on shame . Dali's canvases are thickly populated with figures of ashamed men Introduction 9.
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Ewan Fernie. Dali's canvases are thickly populated with figures of ashamed men and women . Perhaps most memorably , in the foreground of The Lugubrious Game there is an agonised young man fainting on the shoulder of a demented father - ...
Ewan Fernie. Dali's canvases are thickly populated with figures of ashamed men and women . Perhaps most memorably , in the foreground of The Lugubrious Game there is an agonised young man fainting on the shoulder of a demented father - ...
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... figure for the concealed shame of everybody . We have seen how shame functions to protect limited integrity , but it is also an experience of the limitation . If shame as a recognition of falling short is a revelation of our mortal ...
... figure for the concealed shame of everybody . We have seen how shame functions to protect limited integrity , but it is also an experience of the limitation . If shame as a recognition of falling short is a revelation of our mortal ...
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... figures of the twentieth - century painter Francis Bacon . All of these classical plays exhibit leit- motifs of disfigurement and exposure , supporting one of the overall arguments here that , in spite of considerable variations , the ...
... figures of the twentieth - century painter Francis Bacon . All of these classical plays exhibit leit- motifs of disfigurement and exposure , supporting one of the overall arguments here that , in spite of considerable variations , the ...
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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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