Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human SoulLexington Books, 2001 - 405 oldal 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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... death , will soon discuss suicide , and nowhere in the rest of the speech does he suggest any kind of action other than suicide . His initial compari- son of Christian and pagan virtue will prove to be a comparison between Christian and ...
... death , will soon discuss suicide , and nowhere in the rest of the speech does he suggest any kind of action other than suicide . His initial compari- son of Christian and pagan virtue will prove to be a comparison between Christian and ...
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... death . ( 4.5.94-96 ) Claudius is clearly concerned for his own safety . As usual , his re- membrance is of himself . Yet , not all of his stated sorrows seem simply selfish or political . While his emphatic justification of Ham- let's ...
... death . ( 4.5.94-96 ) Claudius is clearly concerned for his own safety . As usual , his re- membrance is of himself . Yet , not all of his stated sorrows seem simply selfish or political . While his emphatic justification of Ham- let's ...
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... death carry back into life . Death's inevitability implies life's futility . Hamlet , generalizing , wonders whether Alexander looked and smelled in death like Yorick's skull . According to Plutarch , Alexan- der was noted for his fair ...
... death carry back into life . Death's inevitability implies life's futility . Hamlet , generalizing , wonders whether Alexander looked and smelled in death like Yorick's skull . According to Plutarch , Alexan- der was noted for his fair ...
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