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Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity: Sinon’s Borrowed Tears: Routledge Focus on Literature

Autor Shawn Smith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 mai 2024
This volume explores Shakespeare’s interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action within the plays, even as it generates one of the audience’s most common responses to tragic drama in the theater. For Shakespeare, the word "pity" contained a broader range of meaning than it does in modern English, and was often associated with ideas such as mercy, compassion, charity, pardon, and clemency. This cluster of ideas provides Shakespeare’s characters with a rich range of possibilities for engaging some of humanity’s deepest emotional commitments, in which pity can be seen as a powerful stimulus for fostering social harmony, love, and forgiveness. However, Shakespeare also dramatizes pity’s potential for deception, when the appeal to pity is not genuine, and conceals contrary motives of vengeance and cruelty. As Shakespeare’s works remain relevant for modern audiences and readers, so too does his dramatization of the powerful ways in which emotions such as pity remain essential to our understanding of our shared humanity and of our awareness of compassion’s role in our own private and civic lives.
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ISBN-13: 9780367696412
ISBN-10: 036769641X
Pagini: 142
Ilustrații: 12
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Focus on Literature

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Cuprins

Preface
1. INTRODUCTION: SINON’S BORROWED TEARS
2. PITY AND PIETY IN TITUS ANDRONICUS
3. LOVE, PITY, AND DECEPTION IN OTHELLO
4. PITY AND POVERTY IN KING LEAR
5. EPILOGUE: THE "NAKED, NEW-BORN BABE"

Notă biografică

Shawn Smith received his Ph.D. in Renaissance studies from Yale University and is an Associate Professor of English at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, where he teaches Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, and world literature. His scholarship has focused on Shakespeare and the history of rhetoric from antiquity to the Renaissance.

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This volume explores Shakespeare’s interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action within the plays, even as it generates one of the audience’s most common responses to tragic drama in the theater.