Shame in Shakespeare

ISBN-13: 9780415258272 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 288 str.

Ewan Fernie

Opis

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 analyzes 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.

Recenzje

'Shame in Shakespeare discovers at the heart of the great tragedies a confrontation with the most complex and disconcerting of human emotions. This ground-breaking study transforms one's understanding of works of which one rarely expects to learn anything new. It does so not only because of the originality of its subject, but also because it owes nothing to modishness and everything to the critical acuity of its author.' - Professor Kiernan Ryan, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Shame Before Shakespeare; Chapter 3 Shame in the Renaissance; Chapter 4 Shame in Shakespeare; Chapter 5 Hamlet; Chapter 6 Othello; Chapter 7 King Lear; Chapter 8 Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus; Chapter 9 Conclusion;

O autorze

Ewan Fernie is lecturer in English at the Queen's University of Belfast. He is the author of several articles on Renaissance literature and culture.