Shakespeare?s Compassion
Emotion and the Classics on the Early Modern Stage
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Product details:
- Publisher The Arden Shakespeare
- Date of Publication 20 March 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350497580
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 218x148x20 mm
- Weight 380 g
- Language English 680
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Long description:
This book shows that Shakespeare's dramatization of compassion, far from expressing a sense of universal empathy, stages a conflicted emotion available to be solicited, manipulated and at times even monopolized as a discursive vehicle for the exclusion of others.
Drawing on the history of emotions and on Shakespearean classical studies, Anne Sophie Refskou argues both that Shakespeare's compassion expresses his own historical and cultural moment and is at the same time the product of his close engagement with literature from the classical past. In so doing, she traces a set of recurrent strands in Shakespeare's engagement with discourses of compassion throughout his playwriting career, situating them in relation to plays written for the early modern stage by contemporaries, including Thomas Kyd, George Peele, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. Individual chapters offer readings of Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Hamlet and King Lear by way of comparative analysis of key classical texts - including Euripides' Hecuba and The Trojan Women, Vergil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses - from which Shakespeare and his fellow playwrights drew sustained inspiration.
Together, the chapters demonstrate how Shakespeare's engagement with the classical literature, from which he inherited a spacious understanding of the social efficacy of emotion, enables his dramatization of issues that are central to the current critical field, including questions of race, gender, sexuality and the relationship between human beings and nonhuman animals.
Table of Contents:
Note on Texts and Translations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Shakespeare's Compassion
1. Compassion's Exclusions: Titus Andronicus and the Power of Pity
2. Feeling Human: Compassion, Cruelty and Beastliness in Richard III
3. 'Pity me not': Hamlet's Queer Compassion
4. Compassion at a Distance: King Lear and Euripides
Conclusion: Compassion after Shakespeare
Notes
Bibliography
Index
