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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... seems to demand a sympathetic response . Nevertheless , we know that modern spectacles will always impose their own particular characteristics on the vision of those who unthinkingly don them . This must mean , at the very least , that ...
... seems to demand a sympathetic response . Nevertheless , we know that modern spectacles will always impose their own particular characteristics on the vision of those who unthinkingly don them . This must mean , at the very least , that ...
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... seems clear that very different and unsettling notions of the ways in which literature might be addressed can hardly be avoided . The worrying truth is that nobody can just pick up Shakespeare's plays and read them . Perhaps - even more ...
... seems clear that very different and unsettling notions of the ways in which literature might be addressed can hardly be avoided . The worrying truth is that nobody can just pick up Shakespeare's plays and read them . Perhaps - even more ...
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... 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 ) , advertising and the media compel ...
... 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 ) , advertising and the media compel ...
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... , but I have done so : I am no true soldier ' . This negative self - apprehension is experienced as debasement , defilement or disfigurement . The feeling of disfigurement or deformity seems best to express the 8 Introduction.
... , but I have done so : I am no true soldier ' . This negative self - apprehension is experienced as debasement , defilement or disfigurement . The feeling of disfigurement or deformity seems best to express the 8 Introduction.
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Ewan Fernie. feeling of disfigurement or deformity seems best to express the sensation of loss of selfhood and identity in shame . Shame reveals our very physical concept of personality : we imagine even our most disembodied qualities in ...
Ewan Fernie. feeling of disfigurement or deformity seems best to express the sensation of loss of selfhood and identity in shame . Shame reveals our very physical concept of personality : we imagine even our most disembodied qualities in ...
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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