When Honour's at the Stake (Routledge Revivals): Ideas of Honour in Shakespeare's Plays

ISBN-13: 9781138780538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 162 str.

Norman Council

Opis

Renaissance ideas of honour had a profound influence on the English people who formed Shakespeare s audiences. In When Honour s at the Stake, first published in 1973, Norman Council describes the increasing importance of these ideas to the themes and structure of a number of Shakespeare s major plays. The validity of the most widely approved code of honour was being challenged on a variety of fronts, yet both personal standards of behaviour and public affairs were habitually understood in terms of honour. A series of tragedies are given their basic form by dramatizing the pernicious effects of man s disobedience to the various demands of honour; in Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear honour is among the principal motives of tragedy. In this way, the modern reader s comprehension of the plays can be greatly enhanced by reference to Elizabethan honour codes. "

Spis treści

1. Ideas of Honour in Shakespeare’s England  2. I Henry IV: The Mirror up to Honour  3. Julius Caesar: the Honourable Brutus  4. Troilus and Cressida: Mad Idolatry  5. Hamlet: the Motives of Tragedy  6. Othello: an Honourable Murderer  7. King Lear: the Wages of Virtue;  Index

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Norman Council