Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human SoulLexington Books, 2001 - 405 sider 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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... eyes turned inward and the other di- rectly up upon the stage . He misses the moral life that lies between . Hamlet himself seems to trace his moral disgust at the world to his mother's hasty , incestuous remarriage ( 1.2.129-59 ) ...
... eyes turned inward and the other di- rectly up upon the stage . He misses the moral life that lies between . Hamlet himself seems to trace his moral disgust at the world to his mother's hasty , incestuous remarriage ( 1.2.129-59 ) ...
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... eye " ( 1.1.115 ; 1.2.185 ) , 27 human beings naturally see double . We see what is before us , and we see what it means . With our eyes we see what is present ; with our minds we can understand what it means . The human ability to ...
... eye " ( 1.1.115 ; 1.2.185 ) , 27 human beings naturally see double . We see what is before us , and we see what it means . With our eyes we see what is present ; with our minds we can understand what it means . The human ability to ...
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