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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... thought about identity and ethics . We shall see in due course that Shakespearean shame functions as the revelation of a fundamental lack in human being . More recently Marxism , and afterwards Foucault and new historicism , have ...
... thought about identity and ethics . We shall see in due course that Shakespearean shame functions as the revelation of a fundamental lack in human being . More recently Marxism , and afterwards Foucault and new historicism , have ...
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... thought , whereby , for instance , the Platonic theory of recollection asserts that all knowledge is already contained within the self ; Husserlian phenomenology makes the Ego the source of knowledge ; and the Heideggerian relation of ...
... thought , whereby , for instance , the Platonic theory of recollection asserts that all knowledge is already contained within the self ; Husserlian phenomenology makes the Ego the source of knowledge ; and the Heideggerian relation of ...
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... thought bitterly as he stared - liver , lungs , kidneys , ribs , stomach and bits of the stewed tomatoes Snowden had eaten that day for lunch . Yossarian ... turned away dizzily and began to vomit , clutching his burning throat ... ' I ...
... thought bitterly as he stared - liver , lungs , kidneys , ribs , stomach and bits of the stewed tomatoes Snowden had eaten that day for lunch . Yossarian ... turned away dizzily and began to vomit , clutching his burning throat ... ' I ...
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... thought of facing his father . His pain ends only when he hurls himself on his sword . In Oedipus Tyrannus , it dawns on the hapless protagonist that he has killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta , and that thus it is he ...
... thought of facing his father . His pain ends only when he hurls himself on his sword . In Oedipus Tyrannus , it dawns on the hapless protagonist that he has killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta , and that thus it is he ...
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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 |
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