Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human SoulLexington Books, 17. 1. 2001 - Počet stran: 416 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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... reflects inner goodness , motion follows order , and change takes place within the permanence of a rational , ordered whole . No gulf separates the best in man from the natural world ( 2.2.295-309 ) .12 Hamlet mentions this view , how ...
... reflects inner goodness , motion follows order , and change takes place within the permanence of a rational , ordered whole . No gulf separates the best in man from the natural world ( 2.2.295-309 ) .12 Hamlet mentions this view , how ...
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... reflect the basic tension within his Stoicism between out- ward fortunes and inward detachment from the effects of those fortunes . Stoicism places happiness in virtue and virtue in what a man himself can control . While a man cannot ...
... reflect the basic tension within his Stoicism between out- ward fortunes and inward detachment from the effects of those fortunes . Stoicism places happiness in virtue and virtue in what a man himself can control . While a man cannot ...
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... reflected in Shakespeare's presentation of him . Although King Claudius is never mentioned by name , Horatio is named eight times in the first fifty - odd lines of scene 1 ( 1.1.13 , 21 , 23 , 26 , 45 , 46 , 48 , 56 ) and five times in ...
... reflected in Shakespeare's presentation of him . Although King Claudius is never mentioned by name , Horatio is named eight times in the first fifty - odd lines of scene 1 ( 1.1.13 , 21 , 23 , 26 , 45 , 46 , 48 , 56 ) and five times in ...
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... reflects his Stoic skepticism and empiricism . His " philosophy , " as Hamlet will call it ( 1.5.175 ) , teaches him to trust only what his senses and reason tell him directly . It leads him to trust his eyes rather than his ears - what ...
... reflects his Stoic skepticism and empiricism . His " philosophy , " as Hamlet will call it ( 1.5.175 ) , teaches him to trust only what his senses and reason tell him directly . It leads him to trust his eyes rather than his ears - what ...
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... reflects Stoic de- tachment . Fate gives us our duties in life , which we must perform : " this drama of human life , wherein we are assigned the parts which we are to play , " Seneca writes , using a common Stoic meta- phor ( Seneca ...
... reflects Stoic de- tachment . Fate gives us our duties in life , which we must perform : " this drama of human life , wherein we are assigned the parts which we are to play , " Seneca writes , using a common Stoic meta- phor ( Seneca ...
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