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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... birth and kinship , Danes now live , travel , and study abroad ; follow foreign tastes and fashions ( e.g. , 1.3.70-74 ; 1.4.10 ; 2.2.426 ; 5.2.144-60 ) ; and know and care what other nations think of them ( e.g. , 1.1.88 ; 1.4.17-22 ) ...
... birth and kinship , Danes now live , travel , and study abroad ; follow foreign tastes and fashions ( e.g. , 1.3.70-74 ; 1.4.10 ; 2.2.426 ; 5.2.144-60 ) ; and know and care what other nations think of them ( e.g. , 1.1.88 ; 1.4.17-22 ) ...
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... birth , he not only needs to be told a Danish custom known far and wide ( 1.4.7-22 ; cf. 1.2.175 ) , but considers himself " more an antique Roman than a Dane " ( 5.2.346 ) . Education , he seems to think , can supersede birth . But if ...
... birth , he not only needs to be told a Danish custom known far and wide ( 1.4.7-22 ; cf. 1.2.175 ) , but considers himself " more an antique Roman than a Dane " ( 5.2.346 ) . Education , he seems to think , can supersede birth . But if ...
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... birth , may now earn a man a place at the king's table ( 5.2.86-89 ) . Most important - and evidently the cause of all the rest — there is neither a feudal system nor a public realm in Denmark . Unlike in a feudal system , although the ...
... birth , may now earn a man a place at the king's table ( 5.2.86-89 ) . Most important - and evidently the cause of all the rest — there is neither a feudal system nor a public realm in Denmark . Unlike in a feudal system , although the ...
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... birth for themselves . " 23 The humanists in Hamlet seem to take Petrarch's pregnant phrase literally . In the end , they beget only words and generate them out of ancient texts . Speech supersedes birth completely . Significantly ...
... birth for themselves . " 23 The humanists in Hamlet seem to take Petrarch's pregnant phrase literally . In the end , they beget only words and generate them out of ancient texts . Speech supersedes birth completely . Significantly ...
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... birth . Notwithstanding his father's role in Claudius's election as king , he speaks as though Denmark were a hereditary , not an elective , monarchy ( 1.3.16-28 ) . To Laertes , the family means everything . Vowing not to let anything ...
... birth . Notwithstanding his father's role in Claudius's election as king , he speaks as though Denmark were a hereditary , not an elective , monarchy ( 1.3.16-28 ) . To Laertes , the family means everything . Vowing not to let anything ...
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