Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Controversies of Self
Author: John Lee
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Published: 1995
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Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Controversies of Self
Author: John Lee
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 294
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text offers a new approach to the discussion of English Renaissance literary subjectivity. Unhappy with new historicist and cultural materialistic criticism, it traces the history of the controversies of self.
Hamlet
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 1438112505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Shakespeare's powerful drama of destiny and revenge, "Hamlet", the troubled prince of Denmark, must overcome his own self-doubt and avenge the murder of his father. Contains a selection of the finest criticism through the centuries on "Hamlet", as well as a biography on Shakespeare.
Nothingness, Negativity, and Nominalism in Shakespeare and Petrarch
Author: Benjamin Boysen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-11-09
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 3110691779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeing exposed to the Nominalist expansion in early modernity, Petrarch and Shakespeare are highly preoccupied with a Nominalist dimension of language and representation. Against this background, the study shows how these Renaissance poets advanced a special notion of subjectivity and identity as rooted in negativity, otherness, and representation. The book thus argues for a new understanding of negative modes of subjectivity in Petrarch and Shakespeare. A new and sharpened understanding emerging from an interpretation of Francesco Petrarch’s notion of exile and of love in his great poetical cycle Rerum vulgarium fragmenta as well as a meticulous examination of the concept of nothingness in William Shakespeare’s works. Petrarch and Shakespeare poetically show how identity is alien and decentred – yet also free and expanding. In other words, these poets illustrate how subjectivity is constituted by heterogeneity. Moreover, pointing to other examples of this negative subjectivity in Renaissance philosophy and poetry, the study suggests that these models for subjectivity could be extended to other early modern writers.
Hamlet and the Rethinking of Man
Author: Eric P. Levy
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780838641392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIsolating the conceptual apparatus dominant in the world of the play, this book traces the play's origins, including those pertaining to Christian Humanism and the Aristotelian-Thomist synthesis with its assumption of 'the sovereignty of reason'.
Special Section, Shakespeare and Montaigne Revisited
Author: Graham Bradshaw
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 980
ISBN-13: 9780754655893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis year including a special section on "Shakespeare and Montaigne Revisited," The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors to this issue come from the US and the UK, Canada, Sweden, Japan and Australia. This issue includes an interview with veteran American actor Alvin Epstein during his recent acclaimed performance of King Lear for the Actors' Shakespeare project in Boston.
Tragic Views of the Human Condition
Author: Lourens Minnema
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2013-06-06
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13: 1441151044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan tragic views of the human condition as known to Westerners through Greek and Shakespearean tragedy be identified outside European culture, in the Indian culture of Hindu epic drama? In what respects can the Mahabharata epic's and the Bhagavadgita's views of the human condition be called 'tragic' in the Greek and Shakespearean senses of the word? Tragic views of the human condition are primarily embedded in stories. Only afterwards are these views expounded in theories of tragedy and in philosophical anthropologies. Minnema identifies these embedded views of human nature by discussing the ways in which tragic stories raise a variety of anthropological issues-issues such as coping with evil, suffering, war, death, values, power, sacrifice, ritual, communication, gender, honour, injustice, knowledge, fate, freedom. Each chapter represents one cluster of tragic issues that are explored in terms of their particular (Greek, English, Indian) settings before being compared cross-culturally. In the end, the underlying question is: are Indian views of the human condition very different from Western views?
Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness
Author: Rhodri Lewis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 0691210926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn acclaimed new interpretation of Shakespeare's Hamlet Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in the English language. By exploring Shakespeare's engagements with the humanist traditions of early modern England and Europe, Rhodri Lewis reveals a Hamlet unseen for centuries: an innovative, coherent, and exhilaratingly bleak tragedy in which the governing ideologies of Shakespeare's age are scrupulously upended. Recovering a work of far greater magnitude than the tragedy of a young man who cannot make up his mind, Lewis shows that in Hamlet, as in King Lear, Shakespeare confronts his audiences with a universe that received ideas are powerless to illuminate—and where everyone must find their own way through the dark.
Shakespeare and the Art of Physiognomy
Author: Sibylle Baumbach
Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1847600786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSibylle Baumbach's study offers new insight into Shakespeare's modes of characterisation, and his art of performance. In Shakespeare's plays, the human face is a focal point. As an area where expression and impression meet (and, ideally, correspond), its reliability and trustworthiness are frequently put to the test, sparking off a controversy which serves as a significant and highly challenging subtext to the overall plot.
The Shakespearean International Yearbook
Author: Mark Turner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1351145304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare's literary craft was not just native English or British, but was filtered and fashioned through a Renaissance awareness that needs to be recognized as European, and that has had effects and afterlives across the Continent. Guest editors Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo have constructed this section to highlight both how the spread of 'Shakespeare' throughout Europe has brought together the energies of a wide variety of European cultures across several centuries, and how the inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a European but also a world affair. The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors to this issue come from the US and the UK, Spain, Switzerland and South Africa, Canada, The Netherlands, India, Portugal, Greece, France, and Hungary. In addition to the section on European Shakespeares, this volume includes essays on the genre of romance, issues of character, and other topics.
