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Shakespeare and Emotional Expression offers an exciting new way of
considering emotional transactions in Shakespearean drama. The book
is significant in its scope and originality as it uses the
innovative medium of colour terms and references to interrogate the
early modern emotional register. By examining contextual and
cultural influences, this work explores the impact these influences
have on the relationship between colour and emotion and argues for
the importance of considering chromatic references as a means to
uncover emotional significances. Using a broad range of documents,
it offers a wider understanding of affective expression in the
early modern period through a detailed examination of several
dramatic works. Although colour meanings fluctuate, by paying
particular attention to contextual clues and the historically
specific cultural situations of Shakespeare's plays, this book
uncovers emotional significances that are not always apparent to
modern audiences and readers. Through its examination of the nexus
between the history of emotions and the social and cultural uses of
colour in early modern drama, Shakespeare and Emotional Expression
adds to our understanding of the expressive and affective
possibilities in Shakespearean drama.
This volume bears potent testimony, not only to the dense
complexity of Hamlet's emotional dynamics, but also to the enduring
fascination that audiences, adaptors, and academics have with what
may well be Shakespeare's moodiest play. Its chapters explore
emotion in Hamlet, as well as the myriad emotions surrounding
Hamlet's debts to the medieval past, its relationship to the
cultural milieu in which it was produced, its celebrated
performance history, and its profound impact beyond the early
modern era. Its component chapters are not unified by a single
methodological approach. Some deal with a single emotion in Hamlet,
while others analyse the emotional trajectory of a single
character, and still others focus on a given emotional expression
(e.g., sighing or crying). Some bring modern methodologies for
studying emotion to bear on Hamlet, others explore how Hamlet
anticipates modern discourses on emotion, and still others ask how
Hamlet itself can complicate and contribute to our current
understanding of emotion.
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