1st Edition

Shakespeare in Hate Emotions, Passions, Selfhood

By Peter Kishore Saval Copyright 2016
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Hate, malice, rage, and enmity: what would Shakespeare’s plays be without these demonic, unruly passions? This book studies how the tirades and unrestrained villainy of Shakespeare’s art explode the decorum and safety of our sanitized lives and challenge the limits of our selfhood. Everyone knows Shakespeare to be the exemplary poet of love, but how many celebrate his clarifying expressions of... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Rage in the World  3. The Arrival of Enigma  4. Hating without Hope  5. Expose Thyself  Epilogue: Not to Trust

Biography

Peter Kishore Saval is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University, USA. In addition to Shakespeare in Hate, he is the author of Reading Shakespeare through Philosophy, also published by Routledge.