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 6
... thing , " 11 can justify man before God . Thus , far from pulling Hamlet in opposite directions , both Christian and pagan virtue pull him away from action , the one by placing virtue in the inner world of faith , the other by placing ...
... thing , " 11 can justify man before God . Thus , far from pulling Hamlet in opposite directions , both Christian and pagan virtue pull him away from action , the one by placing virtue in the inner world of faith , the other by placing ...
Pagina 7
... thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King " [ 2.2.600-1 ] ) and action into stage - acting ( " You that look pale and tremble at this chance , / That are but mutes or audience to this act " [ 5.2.339-40 ] ) . The two senses ...
... thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King " [ 2.2.600-1 ] ) and action into stage - acting ( " You that look pale and tremble at this chance , / That are but mutes or audience to this act " [ 5.2.339-40 ] ) . The two senses ...
Pagina 14
... thing that it imitates . In short , he turns his own moral life - and life itself - into a play within a play . It ... things that should remain double either col- lapse into one or redouble into more than two , or , quite typically , do ...
... thing that it imitates . In short , he turns his own moral life - and life itself - into a play within a play . It ... things that should remain double either col- lapse into one or redouble into more than two , or , quite typically , do ...
Pagina 17
... things right , speaks more wisely than he knows when , asked by Hamlet about his having acted at the university , he boasts , " I did enact Julius Caesar . I was killed i'th Capitol . Brutus killed me " ( 3.2.102-3 ) . While Hamlet's ...
... things right , speaks more wisely than he knows when , asked by Hamlet about his having acted at the university , he boasts , " I did enact Julius Caesar . I was killed i'th Capitol . Brutus killed me " ( 3.2.102-3 ) . While Hamlet's ...
Pagina 24
... things , but most , by far , concerns the suspected deliberate deceptiveness of other men and possible demons . The Ghost , who comes to tell and to command ( 1.5.2 , 5-7 , 22 , 24 , 34 , 91 , 157 , 163 , 169 , 189 ; 3.4.110- 15 ) , is ...
... things , but most , by far , concerns the suspected deliberate deceptiveness of other men and possible demons . The Ghost , who comes to tell and to command ( 1.5.2 , 5-7 , 22 , 24 , 34 , 91 , 157 , 163 , 169 , 189 ; 3.4.110- 15 ) , is ...
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