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Chapter 10 - Standing on a Beach

Shakespeare and the Sympathetic Imagination

from Part V - Responding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2021

Katherine Ibbett
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Kristine Steenbergh
Affiliation:
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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Eric Langley examines how early modern writers revisit the classically derived emblematic scenario of the shipwreck as they assess the nature of compassionate contact. In this chapter, he shows how the recurring image of the shipwreck provides insight into the extent to which vulnerability, affectivity, embeddedness or interdependence are integrated into the substructure of the subject at various historical moments. He argues that the emblem of the shipwreck is used in early modern texts, and particularly in the works of Shakespeare, to account for both the importance and cost of emotional interaction.

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Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Feeling and Practice
, pp. 197 - 216
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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