Ewan Fernie

Shame in Shakespeare

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

One of the most intense and painful of our human passions, shame is typically seen in contemporary culture as a disability or a disease to be cured. Shakespeare's ultimately positive portrayal of the emotion challenges this view. Drawing on philosophers and theorists of shame, "Shame in Shakespeare" analyses the shame and humiliation suffered by the tragic hero, providing not only a new approach to Shakespeare but a committed and provocative argument for reclaiming shame. The volume provides an account of previous traditions of shame and of the Renaissance context, rich manifestations of both masculine and feminine shame in Shakespeare, detailed readings of "Hamlet," "Othello" and "King Lear," an analysis of the limitations of Roman shame in "Antony and Cleopatra" and "Coriolanus" and a polemical discussion of the fortunes of shame in modern literature after Shakespeare.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 351g
• ISBN-13: 9780415258289
• ISBN-10: 0415258286
• Artikelnr.: 22260746

Autorenporträt

Ewan Fernie is Lecturer in English at the Queen's University of Belfast.He is the author of several articles on Renaissance literature and culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Shame Before Shakespeare
Chapter 3 Shame in the Renaissance
Chapter 4 Shame in Shakespeare
Chapter 5 Hamlet
Chapter 6 Othello
Chapter 7 King Lear
Chapter 8 Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus
Chapter 9 Conclusion