Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human SoulLexington Books, 2001 - 405 páginas 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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... imitation of an imitation — a modern imitation of a Roman imitation of Greece . Pedantic Polo- nius , who often echoes Greek and Latin authors and whose own name means " Poland " in Latin , gives his children Greek names . The sequence ...
... imitation of an imitation — a modern imitation of a Roman imitation of Greece . Pedantic Polo- nius , who often echoes Greek and Latin authors and whose own name means " Poland " in Latin , gives his children Greek names . The sequence ...
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... imitate on the other ( " That are but mutes or audience to this act " ) , he says that , but for death , he would tell his own story : Had I but time — as this fell sergeant , Death , Is strict in his arrest — O , I could tell you— But ...
... imitate on the other ( " That are but mutes or audience to this act " ) , he says that , but for death , he would tell his own story : Had I but time — as this fell sergeant , Death , Is strict in his arrest — O , I could tell you— But ...
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... imitate sub- sumes the power to move and hence to act . Seeking refuge from the flux of fortune , Hamlet rejects action in ... imitation . Like life and the soul itself , thinking involves doubleness . As Hamlet and Horatio Introduction 13.
... imitate sub- sumes the power to move and hence to act . Seeking refuge from the flux of fortune , Hamlet rejects action in ... imitation . Like life and the soul itself , thinking involves doubleness . As Hamlet and Horatio Introduction 13.
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... imitation of an imitation , and imitation itself indistinguishable from the thing that it imitates . In short , he turns his own moral life — and life itself — into a play within a play . It is no small irony that Hamlet's self ...
... imitation of an imitation , and imitation itself indistinguishable from the thing that it imitates . In short , he turns his own moral life — and life itself — into a play within a play . It is no small irony that Hamlet's self ...
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... imitate ( " You are as good as a chorus , my lord " [ 3.2.240 ] ; " You that look pale and tremble at this chance , / That are but mutes or audience to this act " [ 5.2.339-40 ] ) . Further , nearly everyone feigns , impersonates , or ...
... imitate ( " You are as good as a chorus , my lord " [ 3.2.240 ] ; " You that look pale and tremble at this chance , / That are but mutes or audience to this act " [ 5.2.339-40 ] ) . Further , nearly everyone feigns , impersonates , or ...
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