Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human SoulLexington Books, 2001 M01 17 - 416 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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... actors comes to Elsinore ( 2.2.314ff . ) ; a Norman horseman travels to Denmark to show his skill ( 4.7.80- 102 ) ; Hamlet is sent to England , accompanied by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern , and returns with the help of pirates ( 3.1.171 ...
... actors comes to Elsinore ( 2.2.314ff . ) ; a Norman horseman travels to Denmark to show his skill ( 4.7.80- 102 ) ; Hamlet is sent to England , accompanied by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern , and returns with the help of pirates ( 3.1.171 ...
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... acting . If outward action dis- appears into inward virtue , it also both disappears into and reap- pears out of stage - acting . Hamlet turns stage - acting into action ( " The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of ...
... acting . If outward action dis- appears into inward virtue , it also both disappears into and reap- pears out of stage - acting . Hamlet turns stage - acting into action ( " The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of ...
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... actor ( 2.2.386 ; cf. 3.2.239 , 385 ; 5.1.206 ) .15 And the only nonmythical Greek is Alexander the Great , the destroyer of the classical polis , whom he mentions in conjunction with Julius Caesar ( 5.1.191-210 ) , the destroyer of the ...
... actor ( 2.2.386 ; cf. 3.2.239 , 385 ; 5.1.206 ) .15 And the only nonmythical Greek is Alexander the Great , the destroyer of the classical polis , whom he mentions in conjunction with Julius Caesar ( 5.1.191-210 ) , the destroyer of the ...
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... actor , chorus , director , manager , audience , critic , patron , and would - be partner in a theater company.20 The ... actors and what they imitate on the other ( " That are but mutes or audience to this act " ) , he says that , but ...
... actor , chorus , director , manager , audience , critic , patron , and would - be partner in a theater company.20 The ... actors and what they imitate on the other ( " That are but mutes or audience to this act " ) , he says that , but ...
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... acting ( " [ T ] he native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought " [ 3.1.84–85 ] ) and acts without thinking ( " O what a rash and bloody deed is this ! " [ 3.4.27 ] ) . But even while he thus sets mo- tion ...
... acting ( " [ T ] he native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought " [ 3.1.84–85 ] ) and acts without thinking ( " O what a rash and bloody deed is this ! " [ 3.4.27 ] ) . But even while he thus sets mo- tion ...
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