Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human SoulLexington Books, 17 ian. 2001 - 416 pagini 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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Pagina 8
... Hamlet ( 1.1.87 ; 1.2.25 ; also 1.2.187 ; 3.4.53–63 ) , no living Dane is ever called valiant , courageous , manly ... king's table ( 5.2.86-89 ) . Most important - and evidently the cause of all the rest — there is neither a feudal system ...
... Hamlet ( 1.1.87 ; 1.2.25 ; also 1.2.187 ; 3.4.53–63 ) , no living Dane is ever called valiant , courageous , manly ... king's table ( 5.2.86-89 ) . Most important - and evidently the cause of all the rest — there is neither a feudal system ...
Pagina 13
... Hamlet is unable to keep the soul's two functions together . He thinks without acting ( " [ T ] he native hue of ... King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras ... was that very day that young Hamlet was born " [ 5.1.139-43 ] ) . But Gertrude's re ...
... Hamlet is unable to keep the soul's two functions together . He thinks without acting ( " [ T ] he native hue of ... King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras ... was that very day that young Hamlet was born " [ 5.1.139-43 ] ) . But Gertrude's re ...
Pagina 14
... Hamlet and Horatio both suggest when , using a rich classical metaphor ... his mother and uncle destroy natural distinctions within the family by dou- bling them , he destroys both action and imitation by ... king -- and 14 Introduction.
... Hamlet and Horatio both suggest when , using a rich classical metaphor ... his mother and uncle destroy natural distinctions within the family by dou- bling them , he destroys both action and imitation by ... king -- and 14 Introduction.
Pagina 26
... Hamlet ( 1.1.77–79 ; 1.2.222 , 253 ) . But if Marcellus and Barnardo thus appear to be Danes , it is hard to understand why neither of them ever refers to a Danish king - whether old Hamlet or Claudius - as " our King , " to Denmark as ...
... Hamlet ( 1.1.77–79 ; 1.2.222 , 253 ) . But if Marcellus and Barnardo thus appear to be Danes , it is hard to understand why neither of them ever refers to a Danish king - whether old Hamlet or Claudius - as " our King , " to Denmark as ...
Pagina 27
... his calling Denmark " our state " and King Hamlet " our King " and to his being introduced by Marcellus as a " liegeman to the Dane , " Horatio , whom Marcellus and Barnardo appeal to as one who knew the former King well ( 1.1.46 , 61 ) ...
... his calling Denmark " our state " and King Hamlet " our King " and to his being introduced by Marcellus as a " liegeman to the Dane , " Horatio , whom Marcellus and Barnardo appeal to as one who knew the former King well ( 1.1.46 , 61 ) ...
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