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Exploring a wide range of material including dramatic works,
medieval morality drama, and lyric poetry this book argues for the
central significance of literary material to the history of
emotions. Early modern English writing about pity evidences a
social culture built specifically around emotion, one (at least
partially) defined by worries about who deserves compassion and
what it might cost an individual to offer it. Pity and Identity in
the Age of Shakespeare positions early modern England as a place
that sustains messy and contradictory views about pity all at once,
bringing together attraction, fear, anxiety, positivity, and
condemnation to paint a picture of an emotion that is
simultaneously unstable and essential, dangerous and vital,
deceptive and seductive. The impact of this emotional burden on
individual subjects played a major role in early modern English
identity formation, centrally shaping the ways in which people
thought about themselves and their communities. Taking in a wide
range of material - including dramatic works by William
Shakespeare, Thomas Heywood, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, and
William Rowley; medieval morality drama; and lyric poetry by Philip
Sidney, Thomas Wyatt, Samuel Daniel, Thomas Lodge, Barnabe Barnes,
George Rodney and Frances Howard - this book argues for the central
significance of literary material to the broader history of
emotions, a field which has thus far remained largely the concern
of social and cultural historians. Pity and Identity in the Age of
Shakespeare shows that both literary materials and literary
criticism can offer new insights into the experience and expression
of emotional humanity.
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