Free Download Dr Emily Shortslef, "The Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare’s Tragedy"
English | ISBN: 0192868489 | 2023 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare’s Tragedy is the first book-length study of complaint in Shakespearean drama. Emily Shortslef makes two main arguments. One is that poetic forms of complaint-expressions of discontent and unhappiness-operate in and across the period’s literary and nonliterary discourses as sites of thought about human flourishing, the subject of ethical inquiry. The other is that Shakespearean configurations of these ubiquitous forms in theatrical scenes of complaint model new ways of thinking about ethical subjectivity, or ways of desiring, acting, and living consonant with notions of the good life.
