Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human SoulLexington Books, 2001 - 405 páginas The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly Thought: "Hamlet" and the Human Soul traces Hamlet's famous inability to act to his inability to hold together these twin aspects of the soul. Combining careful attention to detail and interpretive breadth, noted scholar Jan H. Blits deftly illustrates how Hamlet collapses life into thought, and moral action into stage acting, and ultimately comes to see his own life as a stage play. Hamlet, the book demonstrates, epitomizes the intellectualism of the Renaissance and the modern age it began, and so becomes tragedy's first self-conscious protagonist, signaling the end of ancient tragedy. Erudite, innovative, and lively, Deadly Thought is a ground-breaking contribution that will appeal to Shakespeare scholars, political theorists, historians of philosophy, literary theorists and anyone interested in a truly fresh interpretation of this classic work. |
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... turns stage - acting into action ( " The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King " [ 2.2 ... turns away from what merely seems , he turns to what is entirely seeming . The middle realm — the realm of action ...
... turns stage - acting into action ( " The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King " [ 2.2 ... turns away from what merely seems , he turns to what is entirely seeming . The middle realm — the realm of action ...
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... she assures Hamlet , in turn : [ I ] f words be made of breath , And breath of life , I have no life to breathe What thou hast said to me . ( 3.4.199-201 ) 26 Speech is not only inseparable from , but indeed made Introduction 11.
... she assures Hamlet , in turn : [ I ] f words be made of breath , And breath of life , I have no life to breathe What thou hast said to me . ( 3.4.199-201 ) 26 Speech is not only inseparable from , but indeed made Introduction 11.
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... turns action into theater and theater into action , Hamlet's self - dramatization of his moral life , more fundamentally , converts life into thought , soul into mind . The soul's double as- pects become one . The power to think and ...
... turns action into theater and theater into action , Hamlet's self - dramatization of his moral life , more fundamentally , converts life into thought , soul into mind . The soul's double as- pects become one . The power to think and ...
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... turns his own moral life — and life itself — into a play within a play . It is no small irony that Hamlet's self - dramatization of life mirrors his mother's incest . Shakespeare , we will see , understands the Renaissance , in gen ...
... turns his own moral life — and life itself — into a play within a play . It is no small irony that Hamlet's self - dramatization of life mirrors his mother's incest . Shakespeare , we will see , understands the Renaissance , in gen ...
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... own petard " ( 3.4.208-9 ) , not only kills Rosencrantz and Guildenstern with what was meant to produce his death . He characteristically seizes upon someone else's words and turns them back upon the speaker , 16 Introduction.
... own petard " ( 3.4.208-9 ) , not only kills Rosencrantz and Guildenstern with what was meant to produce his death . He characteristically seizes upon someone else's words and turns them back upon the speaker , 16 Introduction.
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accuses action actors answer appearance Aristotle asks Barnardo birth body cause Christian Cicero Clau Claudius Claudius's conscience corpse Dane Danish dead death deed Denmark describes despite Diogenes Laertius dius double emphasizes explicitly father fear final Fortinbras Fortinbras's fortune Gertrude Gertrude's Ghost God's Gonzago grave Grave-digger Grave-digger's guilt Hamlet says Hamlet seems hath hear heaven Hecuba Horatio imitation incest Jephthah kill King Hamlet King's Laertes Laertes's letter lines lonius lord man's Marcellus marriage means mentions metaphor moral mother murder nature never noble old Hamlet once one's Ophelia Osric play play's Player King Player Queen Plutarch political Polonius Polonius's praise question Quintilian reason refers revenge rhetoric Rosencrantz and Guildenstern royal scene sense Shakespeare silent soliloquy soul speaks speech Stoic Stoicism suggests tell theatrical thee thing thou thought tion tragedy turns twice virtue vows warning words
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Perspectives on Politics in Shakespeare John Albert Murley,Sean D. Sutton Pré-visualização limitada - 2006 |