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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Shakespeare and the theater of pity
  name:
    name part: Smith, Shawn
    name part: 1968-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 124 pages ; illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: This volume explores Shakespeare's interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action within the plays, even as it generates one of the audience's most common responses to tragic drama in the theater. For Shakespeare, the word "pity" contained a broader range of meaning than it does in modern English, and was often associated with ideas such as mercy, compassion, charity, pardon and clemency. This cluster of ideas provides Shakespeare's characters with a rich range of possibilities for engaging some of humanity's deepest emotional commitments, in which pity can be seen as a powerful stimulus for fostering social harmony, love and forgiveness. However, Shakespeare also dramatizes pity's potential for deception, when the appeal to pity is not genuine, and conceals contrary motives of vengeance and cruelty. As Shakespeare's works remain relevant for modern audiences and readers, so too does his dramatization of the powerful ways in which emotions such as pity remain essential to our understanding of our shared humanity and of our awareness of compassion's role in our own private and civic lives.
  table of contents: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- A Note on References -- Preface -- 1. Sinon's Borrowed Tears -- 2. Pity and Piety in Titus Andronicus -- 3. Love, Pity, and Deception in Othello -- 4. Pity and Poverty in King Lear -- 5. Epilogue: "Pity, Like a Naked New-Born Babe" -- Index.
  note: Shawn Smith.
  note: "Routledge Focus."
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Emotions in literature
  subject:
    topic: DRAMA / Shakespeare
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
  classification: PR2976 .S65 2023
  classification: 822.33
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge focus on literature
  identifier: 036769638X
  identifier: 9780367696382
  identifier: 9781000827958 (ePub ebook)
  identifier: 9781000827842 (PDF ebook)
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 220807
    record change date: 20230510201406.1
    record identifier: in00004663394