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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... mother . ( 4.5.117-20 ) Where Horatio thinks reason and choice can replace birth , Laertes thinks that " choice [ must be ] circumscrib'd " by " birth " ( 1.3.22 , 18 ) . If " the womb of earth " ( 1.1.140 ) could be Horatio's motto ...
... mother . ( 4.5.117-20 ) Where Horatio thinks reason and choice can replace birth , Laertes thinks that " choice [ must be ] circumscrib'd " by " birth " ( 1.3.22 , 18 ) . If " the womb of earth " ( 1.1.140 ) could be Horatio's motto ...
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... mother's hasty , incestuous remarriage ( 1.2.129-59 ) . Life natu- rally involves doubling — the doubling of father and mother ( " Father and mother is man and wife , and man and wife is one flesh " [ 4.3.54-55 ] ) and the doubling of ...
... mother's hasty , incestuous remarriage ( 1.2.129-59 ) . Life natu- rally involves doubling — the doubling of father and mother ( " Father and mother is man and wife , and man and wife is one flesh " [ 4.3.54-55 ] ) and the doubling of ...
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... mother and uncle destroy natural distinctions within the family by dou- bling them , he destroys both action and ... mother's incest . Shakespeare , we will see , understands the Renaissance , in gen- eral , and its characteristic ...
... mother and uncle destroy natural distinctions within the family by dou- bling them , he destroys both action and ... mother's incest . Shakespeare , we will see , understands the Renaissance , in gen- eral , and its characteristic ...
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accuses action actors answer appearance Aristotle asks Barnardo birth body cause Christian Cicero Clau Claudius Claudius's conscience corpse Dane Danish dead death deed Denmark describes despite Diogenes Laertius dius double emphasizes explicitly father fear final Fortinbras Fortinbras's fortune Gertrude Gertrude's Ghost God's Gonzago grave Grave-digger Grave-digger's guilt Hamlet says Hamlet seems hath hear heaven Hecuba Horatio imitation incest Jephthah kill King Hamlet King's Laertes Laertes's letter lines lonius lord man's Marcellus marriage means mentions metaphor moral mother murder nature never noble old Hamlet once one's Ophelia Osric play play's Player King Player Queen Plutarch political Polonius Polonius's praise question Quintilian reason refers revenge rhetoric Rosencrantz and Guildenstern royal scene sense Shakespeare silent soliloquy soul speaks speech Stoic Stoicism suggests tell theatrical thee thing thou thought tion tragedy turns twice virtue vows warning words
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