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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... body of literature on Hamlet . " For well over a century , " Harold Jen- kins wrote some thirty - five years ago , " almost every writer upon Hamlet has begun by remarking that more has been written on it than on any other work of ...
... body of literature on Hamlet . " For well over a century , " Harold Jen- kins wrote some thirty - five years ago , " almost every writer upon Hamlet has begun by remarking that more has been written on it than on any other work of ...
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... body be placed " [ h]igh on a stage " ( 5.2.383 ) and , after summarizing what he will tell , vows , " All this can I / Truly deliver " ( 5.2.390-91 ) . Hora- tio will be Hamlet's midwife ( cf. 2.2.208-11 ) . Hamlet's only off- spring ...
... body be placed " [ h]igh on a stage " ( 5.2.383 ) and , after summarizing what he will tell , vows , " All this can I / Truly deliver " ( 5.2.390-91 ) . Hora- tio will be Hamlet's midwife ( cf. 2.2.208-11 ) . Hamlet's only off- spring ...
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... body , thinking and life . Life — the power to move and to grow — is said to be " entirely different in kind from the mind " and " nothing but a certain arrangement of the parts of the body " ( Des- cartes , Letter to Regius , May ...
... body , thinking and life . Life — the power to move and to grow — is said to be " entirely different in kind from the mind " and " nothing but a certain arrangement of the parts of the body " ( Des- cartes , Letter to Regius , May ...
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... bodies without souls and a soul without a body . Not surprisingly , Hamlet opens with the question " Who's there ? " ( 1.1.1 ) , which , despite its obvious ur- gency , is never properly answered . Shakespeare , likewise , emphasizes ...
... bodies without souls and a soul without a body . Not surprisingly , Hamlet opens with the question " Who's there ? " ( 1.1.1 ) , which , despite its obvious ur- gency , is never properly answered . Shakespeare , likewise , emphasizes ...
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Perspectives on Politics in Shakespeare John Albert Murley,Sean D. Sutton Vista previa limitada - 2006 |