RT Book
T1 Shakespeare's Big Men: tragedy and the problem of resentment
A1 Van Oort, Richard
LA English
PP Toronto Buffalo London
PB University of Toronto Press
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/847967123
AB Shakespeare's Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies--Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus--through the lens of generative anthropology and the insights of its founder, Eric Gans. Generative anthropology's theory of the origins of human society explains the social function of tragedy: to defer our resentment against the "big men" who dominate society by letting us first identify with the tragic protagonist and his resentment, then allowing us to repudiate the protagonist's resentful rage and achieve theatrical catharsis. Drawing on this hypothesis, Richard van Oort offers inspired readings of Shakespeare's plays and their representations of desire, resentment, guilt, and evil. His analysis revives the universal spirit in Shakespearean criticism, illustrating how the plays can serve as a way to understand the ethical dilemma of resentment and discover within ourselves the nature of the human experience."--
CN PR2992.M28
SN 978-1-4426-5007-7
K1 Shakespeare, William : 1564-1616 : Julius Caesar
K1 Shakespeare, William : 1564-1616 : Hamlet
K1 Shakespeare, William : 1564-1616 : Othello
K1 Shakespeare, William : 1564-1616 : Macbeth
K1 Shakespeare, William : 1564-1616 : Coriolanus
K1 Protagonists (Persons) in literature
K1 Anthropology in literature
K1 Literature and anthropology
K1 Men in literature
K1 Resentment in literature
K1 Desire in literature
K1 Guilt in literature
K1 Good and evil in literature