Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human SoulLexington Books, 2001 - 405 pagina's 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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... once ab- sent and present , take the form of a ghost in Hamlet . Where the medieval world was rooted in a fixed hierarchical order based largely on birth and kinship , Danes now live , travel , and study abroad ; follow foreign tastes ...
... once ab- sent and present , take the form of a ghost in Hamlet . Where the medieval world was rooted in a fixed hierarchical order based largely on birth and kinship , Danes now live , travel , and study abroad ; follow foreign tastes ...
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... once . The tension implicit in doubleness itself — at once one and two , a whole containing two parts — is broken . Ham .: What is his weapon ? Osr .: Rapier and dagger . Ham .: That's two of his weapons . But well . ( 5.2.141-43 ) Thus ...
... once . The tension implicit in doubleness itself — at once one and two , a whole containing two parts — is broken . Ham .: What is his weapon ? Osr .: Rapier and dagger . Ham .: That's two of his weapons . But well . ( 5.2.141-43 ) Thus ...
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... once a sign and a fur- ther cause of the disappearance of noble actions , Hamlet's — or the Renaissance's — intellectualism sets the two functions of the soul apart , leaving man a divided and diminished animal . NOTES 1. All references ...
... once a sign and a fur- ther cause of the disappearance of noble actions , Hamlet's — or the Renaissance's — intellectualism sets the two functions of the soul apart , leaving man a divided and diminished animal . NOTES 1. All references ...
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... once in forty - one lines and thrice in three lines . There are also approxi- mately seven dozen different privatives in the play . As for the play's fa- mous puns and wordplay , M. M. Mahood notes , " Hamlet ... has more quibbles than ...
... once in forty - one lines and thrice in three lines . There are also approxi- mately seven dozen different privatives in the play . As for the play's fa- mous puns and wordplay , M. M. Mahood notes , " Hamlet ... has more quibbles than ...
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