Shakespeare's contagious sympathies : ill communications / Eric Langley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langley, Eric Francis, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

Diseases in literature.

Medicine in literature.

Communication.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.

Medicine.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge and learning--Medicine.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge and learning--Communication.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 318 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Contents:

I Sympathy

1 Introducing Contagious Sympathies: Shakespeare at the Limits of Compassion p. 3

Introduction: On the Cost of Compassion p. 3

Immersed in the World: Defining a Sympathetic Subject p. 18

On the Affective Life: Critical Influence p. 30

Risking Vulnerability: A Synopsis p. 43

2 Communicating Sympathies: Shakespearean Anxieties of Influency p. 50

Mapping the 'Sympathetick Influence of Nature' I: One Confluence, One Breathing p. 50

Mapping the 'Sympathetick Influence of Nature' II: From Sym-pathos to Sym-pathology p. 59

Corrupt Communications: Dangerous Dependency in Troilus and Cressida p. 70

I Shall be Plagued: The Self, Rendered and Received p. 81

Postscript: The Dialogue of One: Self-Relation in Montaigne and Descartes p. 89

II The Bittersweet

3 Shakespeare's Pharmacy: Bittersweet Sympathies / Sweetbitter Antipathies p. 101

On Antipathy and Sympathy: The Winter's Tale p. 101

The Bitter-Sweet and Sweet-Bitter: Introducing Shakespeare's Pbarmakon p. 110

'Here's a Strange Alteration:' Pharmaceutical Antipathy in Coriolanus p. 121

Wholesome Salves and Bitter Words: The Pharmaceutical Sign p. 128

Sweet Sons and Bitter Bastards: Linguistic Legitimacy in King Lear p. 135

Medicating Parole: The Pharmaceutical Turns of Cymbeline and All's Well that Ends Well p. 143

4 Plagued By Kindness: Othello, in Communication p. 152

His Sickness, My Sickness: Medicinal Friendship p. 155

Friendly Parasites and the Game of Mimicry: lago's Imitative Infection p. 165

Iago's Antithesis: Timon's Pharmaceutical Solutions p. 171

Perplexed in the Extreme: Shakespeare's Complex Subjects p. 176

Conclusion: Isolationism and the Imperative to Purge p. 183

III Tenderness

5 Sight of Others' Anguish: Shakespeare's Tender Sympathies p. 191

Paying Attention in Shakespeare: The Cost of Attentiveness p. 194

Suffering with Others: Sympathy in The Tempest p. 201

Love Me Tender: Touching on the Nervous Body p. 210

6 Self-Contentation: In Communication and Incommunication p. 228

I am Content: Refusing Communication in the Henriad p. 230

Attending to Themselves: The Discontents of 'Sonnet 94' p. 244

Refusing Affection: Shakespeare's Perculiar Subjects p. 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780198821847

0198821840

OCLC:

1063665917