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Council, Norman

 
9781138778931: When Honour's at the Stake (Routledge Revivals)
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ISBN 10: 1138778931 ISBN 13: 9781138778931
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Renaissance ideas of honour had a profound influence on the English people who formed Shakespeare’s audiences. In When Honour’s at the Stake, first published in 1973, Norman Council describes the increasing importance of these ideas to the themes and structure of a number of Shakespeare’s major plays.

The validity of the most widely approved code of honour was being challenged on a variety of fronts, yet both personal standards of behaviour and public affairs were habitually understood in terms of honour. A series of tragedies are given their basic form by dramatizing the pernicious effects of man’s disobedience to the various demands of honour; in Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear honour is among the principal motives of tragedy. In this way, the modern reader’s comprehension of the plays can be greatly enhanced by reference to Elizabethan honour codes.

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Norman Council

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138778931
ISBN 13 
9781138778931
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
166