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Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity - Sinon's Borrowed Tears (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity - Sinon's Borrowed Tears (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Focus on Literature
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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. 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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