Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human SoulThe 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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... Shakespeare , by Mary Ann McGrail The Moral of the Story : Literature and Public Ethics , edited by Henry T. Edmondson III Faith , Reason , and the Possibility of Political Life Today , edited by Pete Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey ...
... Shakespeare , by Mary Ann McGrail The Moral of the Story : Literature and Public Ethics , edited by Henry T. Edmondson III Faith , Reason , and the Possibility of Political Life Today , edited by Pete Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey ...
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... Shakespeare , William , 1564-1616 . Hamlet . 2. Christianity and literature - England - History - 17th century . 3. Christian drama , English - History and criticism . 4. Shakespeare , William , 1564-1616 --- Religion . 5. Soul in ...
... Shakespeare , William , 1564-1616 . Hamlet . 2. Christianity and literature - England - History - 17th century . 3. Christian drama , English - History and criticism . 4. Shakespeare , William , 1564-1616 --- Religion . 5. Soul in ...
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... Shakespeare scholarship , like much of the humanities in general , has gone through many fashionable approaches - from Romanticism to Freudianism , from Marxism to Existentialism , from Old Historicism to New Historicism , from New ...
... Shakespeare scholarship , like much of the humanities in general , has gone through many fashionable approaches - from Romanticism to Freudianism , from Marxism to Existentialism , from Old Historicism to New Historicism , from New ...
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... Shakespeare's . A few years ago I published The Insufficiency of Virtue : " Macbeth " and the Natural Order ( Rowman ... Shakespeare play . The present book studies Hamlet in the same way . Instead of being organized thematically , it ...
... Shakespeare's . A few years ago I published The Insufficiency of Virtue : " Macbeth " and the Natural Order ( Rowman ... Shakespeare play . The present book studies Hamlet in the same way . Instead of being organized thematically , it ...
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... Martin Luther for refusing to repudiate his new doctrine . Shakespeare also men- tions four times ( within just fifty - five lines ) near the start of the 3 play that Hamlet and Horatio have been studying at Wittenberg Introduction.
... Martin Luther for refusing to repudiate his new doctrine . Shakespeare also men- tions four times ( within just fifty - five lines ) near the start of the 3 play that Hamlet and Horatio have been studying at Wittenberg Introduction.
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