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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... shame in the work of William Shakespeare . It presents a Shakespearean vision of shame as a painful rehearsal for the dissolution of death or an experience of dreadful metamor- phosis , and yet ultimately also a liberation from the ...
... shame in the work of William Shakespeare . It presents a Shakespearean vision of shame as a painful rehearsal for the dissolution of death or an experience of dreadful metamor- phosis , and yet ultimately also a liberation from the ...
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... shame has been largely neglected by intellectuals . But Helen Merell Lynd's On Shame and the Search for Identity ( 1958 ) remains a classic treatment , as does Carl Schneider's Shame , Exposure and Privacy ( 1992 ; first published 1977 ) ...
... shame has been largely neglected by intellectuals . But Helen Merell Lynd's On Shame and the Search for Identity ( 1958 ) remains a classic treatment , as does Carl Schneider's Shame , Exposure and Privacy ( 1992 ; first published 1977 ) ...
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... shame went out with the warrior code , and some anthropologists treat it as a curiosity of life in , say , Japan or rural Andalucía - Shame in Shakespeare is written out of a passionate conviction of shame's importance . Salman Rushdie ...
... shame went out with the warrior code , and some anthropologists treat it as a curiosity of life in , say , Japan or rural Andalucía - Shame in Shakespeare is written out of a passionate conviction of shame's importance . Salman Rushdie ...
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... shame . Shame reveals our very physical concept of personality : we imagine even our most disembodied qualities in physical terms . Antonio in Twelfth Night goes so far as to say , ' In nature there is no blemish but the mind : / None ...
... shame . Shame reveals our very physical concept of personality : we imagine even our most disembodied qualities in physical terms . Antonio in Twelfth Night goes so far as to say , ' In nature there is no blemish but the mind : / None ...
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... Shame constitutes an unwelcome revelation of the self . Lynd writes : Experiences of shame appear to embody the root meaning of the word to uncover , to expose , to wound . They are experiences of exposure , exposure of peculiarly ...
... Shame constitutes an unwelcome revelation of the self . Lynd writes : Experiences of shame appear to embody the root meaning of the word to uncover , to expose , to wound . They are experiences of exposure , exposure of peculiarly ...
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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