The drama of complaint : ethical provocations in Shakespeare's tragedy / Emily Shortslef. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shortslef, Emily, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Complaint poetry, English--History and criticism.

Complaint poetry, English.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays--Selections.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Here is a study of complaint in Shakespearean drama, arguing that poetic forms of complaint - expressions of discontent and unhappiness - operate as sites of thought about human flourishing; and that Shakespearean configurations of these forms of complaint in theatrical scenes model new ways of thinking about ethical subjectivity.

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.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 27, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Shortslef, Emily The Drama of Complaint

ISBN:

0-19-196452-2

0-19-269476-6

0-19-269477-4