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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... perhaps reached its climax in more recent movements such as new historicism or cultural materialism . A consideration of the conditions - social , political or economic - within which the play came to exist , from which it derives and ...
... perhaps reached its climax in more recent movements such as new historicism or cultural materialism . A consideration of the conditions - social , political or economic - within which the play came to exist , from which it derives and ...
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... Perhaps - even more worrying- they never could . The aim of Accents on Shakespeare is to encourage students and teachers to explore the implications of this situation by means of an engagement with the major developments in Shakespeare ...
... Perhaps - even more worrying- they never could . The aim of Accents on Shakespeare is to encourage students and teachers to explore the implications of this situation by means of an engagement with the major developments in Shakespeare ...
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... perhaps now remembering shame . This is partly because of the spiritual bankruptcy of late capitalism . Increasingly omnipresent in a more and more ' virtual ' world , advertising serves its own ends ( and those of its masters ) by ...
... perhaps now remembering shame . This is partly because of the spiritual bankruptcy of late capitalism . Increasingly omnipresent in a more and more ' virtual ' world , advertising serves its own ends ( and those of its masters ) by ...
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... Perhaps more often than not our culture seems morally shameless , yet the amoral shame of loss of status and sheer humiliation would seem to have reached epidemic proportions . As Oliver James has argued in Britain on the Couch ( 1998 ) ...
... Perhaps more often than not our culture seems morally shameless , yet the amoral shame of loss of status and sheer humiliation would seem to have reached epidemic proportions . As Oliver James has argued in Britain on the Couch ( 1998 ) ...
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... perhaps worth saying that this book , though it draws on poststructuralist ethics and the proliferation of new historicist work in early modern studies , emerges less from a committed critical position than from direct engagement with ...
... perhaps worth saying that this book , though it draws on poststructuralist ethics and the proliferation of new historicist work in early modern studies , emerges less from a committed critical position than from direct engagement with ...
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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