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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... speech . In it , the new King simply announces his decisions rather than trying to persuade the court of anything ( 1.2.1-39 ) . The only other time he publicly justifies his action , the nobles , again , listen in silence ( 4.3.1-11 ...
... speech . In it , the new King simply announces his decisions rather than trying to persuade the court of anything ( 1.2.1-39 ) . The only other time he publicly justifies his action , the nobles , again , listen in silence ( 4.3.1-11 ...
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... Speech supersedes birth completely . Significantly enough , in a play in which families are so important , Horatio's family is never men- tioned . A man who thinks that education can supplant birth , Hora- tio , who never exchanges a ...
... Speech supersedes birth completely . Significantly enough , in a play in which families are so important , Horatio's family is never men- tioned . A man who thinks that education can supplant birth , Hora- tio , who never exchanges a ...
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Hamlet and the Human Soul Jan H. Blits. Speech is not only inseparable from , but indeed made up of , life . A young maid's mind ( " wits " ) can be as " mortal " as an old man's " life " ( 4.5.159-60 ) . Because it is the single source ...
Hamlet and the Human Soul Jan H. Blits. Speech is not only inseparable from , but indeed made up of , life . A young maid's mind ( " wits " ) can be as " mortal " as an old man's " life " ( 4.5.159-60 ) . Because it is the single source ...
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... speech and deed , a conversa- tion and a battle : " when in an angry parle / He smote the sledded Polacks .... " In doing so , he anticipates Hamlet . After Marcellus repeats that the Ghost has appeared " twice be- fore , and jump at ...
... speech and deed , a conversa- tion and a battle : " when in an angry parle / He smote the sledded Polacks .... " In doing so , he anticipates Hamlet . After Marcellus repeats that the Ghost has appeared " twice be- fore , and jump at ...
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... speech to the Ghost ( 1.4.39-57 ) equals Marcel- lus's for the number of times the question why ? is explicitly asked.15 Indeed , this is the only speech in Hamlet in which every other line starts with either the interrogative pronoun ...
... speech to the Ghost ( 1.4.39-57 ) equals Marcel- lus's for the number of times the question why ? is explicitly asked.15 Indeed , this is the only speech in Hamlet in which every other line starts with either the interrogative pronoun ...
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