TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Oort,Richard
TI  - Shakespeare's big men: tragedy and the problem of resentment 
SN  - 9781442622166
AV  - PR2992 .S535 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Toronto, Buffalo, London
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Men in literature
KW  - Resentment in literature
KW  - Desire in literature
KW  - Guilt in literature
KW  - Good and evil in literature
KW  - Protagonists (Persons) in literature
KW  - Anthropology in literature
KW  - Literature and anthropology
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - Shakespeare's Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies--Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus--through the lens of generative anthropology and the insights of its founder, Eric Gans. Generative anthropology's theory of the origins of human society explains the social function of tragedy: to defer our resentment against the "big men" who dominate society by letting us first identify with the tragic protagonist and his resentment, then allowing us to repudiate the protagonist's resentful rage and achieve theatrical catharsis. Drawing on this hypothesis, Richard van Oort offers inspired readings of Shakespeare's plays and their representations of desire, resentment, guilt, and evil. His analysis revives the universal spirit in Shakespearean criticism, illustrating how the plays can serve as a way to understand the ethical dilemma of resentment and discover within ourselves the nature of the human experience."--
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