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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... heaven Where now it burns , Marcellus and myself , The bell then beating one- ( 1.1.38-42 ) Barnardo evidently expects Horatio to be as convinced by hearing a poetic account of what he and Marcellus have seen as he would be had he seen ...
... heaven Where now it burns , Marcellus and myself , The bell then beating one- ( 1.1.38-42 ) Barnardo evidently expects Horatio to be as convinced by hearing a poetic account of what he and Marcellus have seen as he would be had he seen ...
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... heaven , I charge thee speak . ( 1.1.49-52 ) The Ghost does not answer . Marcellus , who ( perhaps in accor- dance with popular belief ' ) regards Horatio as having some special qualification as " a scholar " ( 1.1.45 ) for speaking to ...
... heaven , I charge thee speak . ( 1.1.49-52 ) The Ghost does not answer . Marcellus , who ( perhaps in accor- dance with popular belief ' ) regards Horatio as having some special qualification as " a scholar " ( 1.1.45 ) for speaking to ...
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... heaven and earth together demonstrated Unto our climatures and countrymen . ( 1.1.116-28 ) This is , far and away , the skeptical Horatio's most superstitious speech . Rather than temper his credulity , his scholarship seems only to ...
... heaven and earth together demonstrated Unto our climatures and countrymen . ( 1.1.116-28 ) This is , far and away , the skeptical Horatio's most superstitious speech . Rather than temper his credulity , his scholarship seems only to ...
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... heaven and earth to- gether " have produced them , or why he believes that the prodigies warn not only Denmark but the entire region of Europe ( " our cli- matures " ) . Nor is it clear what events he fears the harbingers por- tend ...
... heaven and earth to- gether " have produced them , or why he believes that the prodigies warn not only Denmark but the entire region of Europe ( " our cli- matures " ) . Nor is it clear what events he fears the harbingers por- tend ...
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... heaven ( Hebrews , 11.13-16 ) . This is , however , the only time Gertrude ever speaks of eternity . And except for once saying " amen " in approval of Guildenstern's prayer for Hamlet's recovery ( 2.2.39 ) and for once imploring ...
... heaven ( Hebrews , 11.13-16 ) . This is , however , the only time Gertrude ever speaks of eternity . And except for once saying " amen " in approval of Guildenstern's prayer for Hamlet's recovery ( 2.2.39 ) and for once imploring ...
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