Emily Shortslef

The Drama of Complaint

Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's Tragedy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first book-length study of complaint in Shakespearean drama, arguing that poetic forms of complaint--expressions of discontent and unhappiness--operate as sites of thought about human flourishing; and that Shakespearean configurations of these forms of complaint in theatrical scenes model new ways of thinking about ethical subjectivity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780192868480
• ISBN-10: 0192868489
• Artikelnr.: 67863248

Autorenporträt

Emily Shortslef is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on Shakespeare, early modern drama, and the intersection of ethics and poetics in early modern writing. She has published in journals such as English Literary History and the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and has contributed essays about Shakespeare, complaint, and ethics to a number of edited collections.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Scenes of Complaint
* 1: Signs of Life: Existential Complaint and the Creaturely Ethics of
Complaining
* 2: Ethical Demands: Judicial Complaint and the Call of Conscience
* 3: 'Me and My Cause': Spectral Complaints and Sublime Motives
* 4: Lamentable Objects: Good Audiences and the Art of Female Complaint
* 5: 'Nobody, I myself': Deathbed Complaint and the Authority of
Happiness Scripts