Pity and Identity in the Age of Shakespeare

Exploring a wide range of material including dramatic works, medieval morality drama, and lyric poetry this book argues for the central significance of literary material to the history of emotions.

List of contents

Acknowledgements

Textual Note

Introduction

1. 'My name is Pity': Mediated Emotion and King Lear

2. Violent Spectacle and Violent Feeling in Early Modern Lucrece Narratives

3. Dramatic Reworkings of Poetic Pity

4. Theorising Humanity Through Pity

Conclusion

Bibliography

About the author

Toria Johnson

Summary

Exploring a wide range of material including dramatic works, medieval morality drama, and lyric poetry this book argues for the central significance of literary material to the history of emotions.

Product details

• Authors: Toria Johnson
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781843845744
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-574-4
• No. of pages: 246
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature; Studies in Renaissance Literat
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies