Shawn Smith

Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity (eBook, ePUB)

Sinon's Borrowed Tears

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores Shakespeare's interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action within the plays, even as it generates one of the audience's most common responses to tragic drama in the theater.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000827958
• Artikelnr.: 66390417

Autorenporträt

Shawn Smith received his Ph.D. in Renaissance studies from Yale University and is an Associate Professor of English at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, where he teaches Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, and world literature. His scholarship has focused on Shakespeare and the history of rhetoric from antiquity to the Renaissance.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. INTRODUCTION: SINON'S BORROWED TEARS
2. PITY AND PIETY IN TITUS ANDRONICUS
3. LOVE, PITY, AND DECEPTION IN OTHELLO
4. PITY AND POVERTY IN KING LEAR
5. EPILOGUE: THE "NAKED, NEW-BORN BABE"

---

Preface

1. INTRODUCTION: SINON'S BORROWED TEARS

2. PITY AND PIETY IN TITUS ANDRONICUS

3. LOVE, PITY, AND DECEPTION IN OTHELLO

4. PITY AND POVERTY IN KING LEAR

5. EPILOGUE: THE "NAKED, NEW-BORN BABE"