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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... body , in Lacan the subject is shamed by the body's superior coherence . According to a traditional model of shame with which we will become well acquainted , the world reflects the subject back in a way offensive to its own self ...
... body , in Lacan the subject is shamed by the body's superior coherence . According to a traditional model of shame with which we will become well acquainted , the world reflects the subject back in a way offensive to its own self ...
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... Body Embarrassed : Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England ( 1993 ) and Laura Lunger Knoppers's ' ( En ) gendering shame : Measure for Measure and the spectacles of power ' ( 1993 ) are useful instances from the ...
... Body Embarrassed : Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England ( 1993 ) and Laura Lunger Knoppers's ' ( En ) gendering shame : Measure for Measure and the spectacles of power ' ( 1993 ) are useful instances from the ...
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... an impossible dream . With its involuntary desires , its blemishes , wounds and diseases , its excrement , and its eventual death , the gross , steadily decaying body irresistibly offends the sense of self , as Kristeva Introduction 17.
... an impossible dream . With its involuntary desires , its blemishes , wounds and diseases , its excrement , and its eventual death , the gross , steadily decaying body irresistibly offends the sense of self , as Kristeva Introduction 17.
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Ewan Fernie. body irresistibly offends the sense of self , as Kristeva empha- sises . And so too with intellectual and moral imperfections . How could it be otherwise ? As Schneider puts it , we are ' valuing animals ' and shame is ' the ...
Ewan Fernie. body irresistibly offends the sense of self , as Kristeva empha- sises . And so too with intellectual and moral imperfections . How could it be otherwise ? As Schneider puts it , we are ' valuing animals ' and shame is ' the ...
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Ewan Fernie. Coming to consciousness and finding himself surrounded by their dead bodies , Heracles asks his aged father Amphitryon who has killed them , only to be told that he has done it himself . He is overcome with shame ; when ...
Ewan Fernie. Coming to consciousness and finding himself surrounded by their dead bodies , Heracles asks his aged father Amphitryon who has killed them , only to be told that he has done it himself . He is overcome with shame ; when ...
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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