The drama of complaint : ethical provocations in Shakespeare's tragedy /
"Built around some of the most electrifying scenes in Shakespearean tragedy, The Drama of Complaint examines Shakespeare's theatrical experiments with the poetic forms of complaint that were so prolific in early modern literature, showing how these conventional forms became crucibles for u...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- The Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's Tragedy
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: Scenes of Complaint
- 1. Forms of Desire
- 2. Forms of Ethical Thought
- 3. Shakespeare's Ethical Poetics
- 1: Signs of Life: Existential Complaint and the Creaturely Ethics of Complaining
- 1. Creaturely Pressures and Existential Complaint
- 2. Philosophy against Complaining
- 3. Speaking Feeling in King Lear
- 2: Ethical Demands: Judicial Complaint and the Call of Conscience
- 1. Hearing Judicial Complaint
- 2. Response and Responsibility in Richard III
- 3. Conscience and the Voices of Complaint
- 3: "Me and My Cause": Spectral Complaints and Sublime Motives
- 1. Volitional Excess and Spectral Complaint
- 2. Ghostly Excitations: Hamlet's Dull Revenge
- 3. Scenes of Animation: Hamlet's Dread Commands
- 4: Lamentable Objects: Good Audiences and the Art of Female Complaint
- 1. Idle Art: Female Complaint and Sympathetic Reception
- 2. Virtuous Tears: Tragic History as Female Complaint
- 3. Becoming Lamentable in Richard II
- 5: "Nobody, I Myself ": Deathbed Complaint and the Authority of Happiness Scripts
- 1. Deathbed Complaint and the Happiness Scripts of Domestic Tragedy
- 2. Othello and the Fragmented Deathbed Complaint
- 3. Interpreting the Scene of Complaint
- Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index