Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human SoulLexington Books, 2001 M01 17 - 416 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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... fortune , a man can control his disposition toward their effects . So long as nothing external breaks into his will or affects his judgment , no misfortune can touch his soul and disturb his happiness . As Hamlet says in high praise of ...
... fortune , a man can control his disposition toward their effects . So long as nothing external breaks into his will or affects his judgment , no misfortune can touch his soul and disturb his happiness . As Hamlet says in high praise of ...
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... fortune and inconstancy - only chance and change . In his view , everything is mutable , nothing in the world abides . Rather than reason guiding and sustaining men's actions , purpose follows memory , memory follows passion , and ...
... fortune and inconstancy - only chance and change . In his view , everything is mutable , nothing in the world abides . Rather than reason guiding and sustaining men's actions , purpose follows memory , memory follows passion , and ...
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... fortune , Hamlet rejects action in the name of what lies within and truly is , on the one hand , and in the name of what is shown on the stage and simulates the world , on the other . Both refuges lie in the mind . For Hamlet , both ...
... fortune , Hamlet rejects action in the name of what lies within and truly is , on the one hand , and in the name of what is shown on the stage and simulates the world , on the other . Both refuges lie in the mind . For Hamlet , both ...
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... fortunes and inward detachment from the effects of those fortunes . Stoicism places happiness in virtue and virtue in what a man himself can control . While a man cannot control the vicissi- tudes of fortune , he can control his ...
... fortunes and inward detachment from the effects of those fortunes . Stoicism places happiness in virtue and virtue in what a man himself can control . While a man cannot control the vicissi- tudes of fortune , he can control his ...
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... fortune surrounding his efforts . He is , as Hamlet says in praise of Horatio , " As one , in suf- f'ring all , that suffers nothing " ( 3.2.66 ) . Finding happiness in the sovereignty of his mind , he is always partly absent from the ...
... fortune surrounding his efforts . He is , as Hamlet says in praise of Horatio , " As one , in suf- f'ring all , that suffers nothing " ( 3.2.66 ) . Finding happiness in the sovereignty of his mind , he is always partly absent from the ...
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