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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... tion tacitly presumes that everything significant about the play has already been said , perhaps ad nauseam . There is , of course , a vast body of literature on Hamlet . " For well over a century , " Harold Jen- kins wrote some thirty ...
... tion tacitly presumes that everything significant about the play has already been said , perhaps ad nauseam . There is , of course , a vast body of literature on Hamlet . " For well over a century , " Harold Jen- kins wrote some thirty ...
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... tion , they enact rather than act ; they simulate rather than emulate.16 " I did enact Julius Caesar . I was killed in the Capitol . Brutus killed me " ( 3.2.102-3 ) . In Hamlet , the word " deed " never refers to a noble action . With ...
... tion , they enact rather than act ; they simulate rather than emulate.16 " I did enact Julius Caesar . I was killed in the Capitol . Brutus killed me " ( 3.2.102-3 ) . In Hamlet , the word " deed " never refers to a noble action . With ...
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... tion and thinking apart , Hamlet tends to collapse the former into the latter . As it turns action into theater and theater into action , Hamlet's self - dramatization of his moral life , more fundamentally , converts life into thought ...
... tion and thinking apart , Hamlet tends to collapse the former into the latter . As it turns action into theater and theater into action , Hamlet's self - dramatization of his moral life , more fundamentally , converts life into thought ...
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... tion into stage - acting . He also finally comes to believe that things happen in life as they do in a play . A play is not only an imitation of life , but a direct duplication of life . As art imitates life , so , too , life imitates ...
... tion into stage - acting . He also finally comes to believe that things happen in life as they do in a play . A play is not only an imitation of life , but a direct duplication of life . As art imitates life , so , too , life imitates ...
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... tion ; and imitation replaces generation . At 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 ...
... tion ; and imitation replaces generation . At 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 ...
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