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. |
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... heart revered ; I overthrew all boundary stones and images ... ' Nothing is true , all is permitted ' : thus I spoke to myself . Into the coldest waters I plunged , with head and heart . Alas , how often have I stood there afterward ...
... hearts of others , even those of the most reputable and exalted Puritans : Sometimes the red infamy upon her breast would give a sympathetic throb , as she passed near a venerable minister or magistrate , the model of piety and justice ...
... heart of classical tragedy is a cold knowledge - Odysseus's knowledge of the shameful frailty and transience of the human estate . If the exalted Ajax and Heracles can be so degraded , what of you or I ? Tragic shame , which does not ...
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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 |