Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human SoulLexington Books, 17 jan. 2001 - 416 sidor 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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... virtue or distinguished 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 ...
... virtue or distinguished 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 ...
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... virtue ( Machiavelli , Discourses on Livy , I pref . ) . Machiavelli's criticism holds true of the humanists in Hamlet . Instead of imitating ancient deeds by doing others like them , they imitate ancient deeds by por- traying them on ...
... virtue ( Machiavelli , Discourses on Livy , I pref . ) . Machiavelli's criticism holds true of the humanists in Hamlet . Instead of imitating ancient deeds by doing others like them , they imitate ancient deeds by por- traying them on ...
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... virtue , or breeding ; 29 some impersonate others in drama , song , or recitation , and perhaps even in " form " or " person " ; 30 and some dissemble or disguise their intentions and actions.31 And there are corpses and a ghost ...
... virtue , or breeding ; 29 some impersonate others in drama , song , or recitation , and perhaps even in " form " or " person " ; 30 and some dissemble or disguise their intentions and actions.31 And there are corpses and a ghost ...
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... virtue and virtue in what a man himself can control . While a man cannot control the vicissi- tudes of fortune , he can control his disposition toward their ef- fects . So long as nothing external breaks into his will or affects his ...
... virtue and virtue in what a man himself can control . While a man cannot control the vicissi- tudes of fortune , he can control his disposition toward their ef- fects . So long as nothing external breaks into his will or affects his ...
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... virtue of the doer eclipses the imprudence of his deed , even when the kingdom itself appears to have been at stake . Nor are the terms of the contest entirely clear . Horatio says that King Hamlet wagered a portion of land that would ...
... virtue of the doer eclipses the imprudence of his deed , even when the kingdom itself appears to have been at stake . Nor are the terms of the contest entirely clear . Horatio says that King Hamlet wagered a portion of land that would ...
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