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Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human Soul
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Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human Soul Hardcover - 2001

by Jan H. Blits


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The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly Thought: 'Hamlet' and the Human Soul traces Hamlet's famous inability to act to his inability to hold together these twin aspects of the soul. Combining careful attention to detail and interpretive breadth, noted scholar Jan H. Blits deftly illustrates how Hamlet collapses life into thought, and moral action into stage acting, and ultimately comes to see his own life as a stage play. Hamlet, the book demonstrates, epitomizes the intellectualism of the Renaissance and the modern age it began, and so becomes tragedy's first self-conscious protagonist, signaling the end of ancient tragedy. Erudite, innovative, and lively, Deadly Thought is a ground-breaking contribution that will appeal to Shakespeare scholars, political theorists, historians of philosophy, literary theorists and anyone interested in a truly fresh interpretation of this classic work.

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  • Title Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human Soul
  • Author Jan H. Blits
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Lexington Books
  • Date 2001-01
  • Features Annotated, Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780739102145 / 0739102141
  • Weight 1.46 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.08 x 1.06 in (23.57 x 15.44 x 2.69 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Shakespeare, William, Religion in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00063751
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822.33

About the author

Jan H. Blits is Professor, Honors Faculty, at the University of Delaware. He is the author of The Insufficiency of Virtue: 'Macbeth' and the Natural Order (1996), and The End of the Ancient Republic: Essays on 'Julius Caesar'(1993).
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