When Honour's at the Stake (Routledge Revivals)
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When Honour's at the Stake (Routledge Revivals)

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When Honour's at the Stake (Routledge Revivals)

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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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
ISBN
9781317672944
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism of Shakespeare
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Original Title Page
  6. Original Copyright Page
  7. Dedication
  8. Table of Contents
  9. 1 Ideas of Honour in Shakespeare’s England
  10. 2 I Henry IV: the Mirror up to Honour
  11. 3 Julius Caesar: the Honourable Brutus
  12. 4 Troilus and Cressida: Mad Idolatry
  13. 5 Hamlet: the Motives of Tragedy
  14. 6 Othello: an Honourable Murderer
  15. 7 King Lear: the Wages of Virtue
  16. Index