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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... Fortinbras ... was that very day that young Hamlet was born " [ 5.1.139-43 ] ) . But Gertrude's re- marriage destroys the natural doubleness . Claudius , having killed his brother , has married his " sometime sister " ( 1.2.8 ) , his ...
... Fortinbras ... was that very day that young Hamlet was born " [ 5.1.139-43 ] ) . But Gertrude's re- marriage destroys the natural doubleness . Claudius , having killed his brother , has married his " sometime sister " ( 1.2.8 ) , his ...
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... Fortinbras recovering what his father had lost ( 1.1.83-107 ; 5.2.355ff . ) . More generally , lat : er scenes are often mirror images of correspondingly placed earlier ones . In the third scene from the beginning , for example , we ...
... Fortinbras recovering what his father had lost ( 1.1.83-107 ; 5.2.355ff . ) . More generally , lat : er scenes are often mirror images of correspondingly placed earlier ones . In the third scene from the beginning , for example , we ...
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... Fortinbras and Laertes ( and Pyrrhus ) lose fathers , like Hamlet . Ophelia goes mad , while Ham- let pretends to . Finally , Hamlet itself is a duplication or an imitation . The play is based on Saxo Grammaticus's twelfth - century ...
... Fortinbras and Laertes ( and Pyrrhus ) lose fathers , like Hamlet . Ophelia goes mad , while Ham- let pretends to . Finally , Hamlet itself is a duplication or an imitation . The play is based on Saxo Grammaticus's twelfth - century ...
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... Fortinbras , and what frown he wore on his face when he smote the Poles ( 1.1.50- 52 , 63-66 ) . He also seems well acquainted with what is now being said at court concerning the new King's military preparations— something which ...
... Fortinbras , and what frown he wore on his face when he smote the Poles ( 1.1.50- 52 , 63-66 ) . He also seems well acquainted with what is now being said at court concerning the new King's military preparations— something which ...
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... Fortinbras . The second ( 1.1.98-110 ) narrates young Fortinbras's attempt to recover by force the lands his father lost in the duel and concludes that his attempt is the cause of the present preparations . The duel , Horatio recounts ...
... Fortinbras . The second ( 1.1.98-110 ) narrates young Fortinbras's attempt to recover by force the lands his father lost in the duel and concludes that his attempt is the cause of the present preparations . The duel , Horatio recounts ...
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