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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... from their own selves and lives ; this is worsened by the fact that shame and depression are themselves regarded as failure . An obscure hunger for shame is curiously evidenced by the phenomenon of the TV confession , as Introduction 3.
... from their own selves and lives ; this is worsened by the fact that shame and depression are themselves regarded as failure . An obscure hunger for shame is curiously evidenced by the phenomenon of the TV confession , as Introduction 3.
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... live with death . This not only means that they have a fundamental self - knowledge not granted to all of us ; it may lead to a better and more fulfilling life . For this experience of the tremulous insubstantiality of the self , of a ...
... live with death . This not only means that they have a fundamental self - knowledge not granted to all of us ; it may lead to a better and more fulfilling life . For this experience of the tremulous insubstantiality of the self , of a ...
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... paradoxical intuition dramatised in his plays , and also the argument of this book , is that it has the potential radically to transform our lives for the better . 2 Shame before Shakespeare Up till now , in an Introduction 23.
... paradoxical intuition dramatised in his plays , and also the argument of this book , is that it has the potential radically to transform our lives for the better . 2 Shame before Shakespeare Up till now , in an Introduction 23.
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... susceptible to worldly shame , because they live in a relatively man - centred epoch ( and I use that gender - specific term advisedly ) rather than the God - centred Middle Ages : issues of 28 Shame before Shakespeare.
... susceptible to worldly shame , because they live in a relatively man - centred epoch ( and I use that gender - specific term advisedly ) rather than the God - centred Middle Ages : issues of 28 Shame before Shakespeare.
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... 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 unconscious at the time of Shame before Shakespeare 29.
... 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 unconscious at the time of Shame before Shakespeare 29.
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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