Holding a Mirror Up to Nature: Shame, Guilt, and Violence in Shakespeare

ISBN-13: 9781108970396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 250 str.

David A.J. Richards

Opis

Shakespeare reveals the causes and consequences of violence more profoundly than any social or behavioural scientist has ever done.

Recenzje

'… a compelling story about the differences between an ethic based on shame and one based on guilt. … Recommended.' B. A. McGowan, Choice

Spis treści

Introduction: can we learn from Shakespeare about the causes and prevention of violence?; 1. Shame and guilt in personality and culture; 2. The cycle of violence in history plays; 3. Fathers and mothers: the perversion of love in King Lear and Coriolanus; 4. Make war, not love: Anthony and Cleopatra; 5. The motives and malignity: shame and masculinity in Othello and Macbeth; 6. Moral nihilism and the paralysis of action: Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida; 7. Apocalyptic vioence: Timon of Athens; 8. Transcending morality, preventing violence: Measure for Measure, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, and The Merchant of Venice; 9. The form and pressure of Shakespeare's time – and ours: what Shakespeare shows us about shame, guilt, love and violence; Acknowledgments.