Coping with Human Evil: Shakespeare's Sense of Tragic Revenge

Lourens Minnema

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Coping with Human Evil: Shakespeare's Sense of Tragic Revenge

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Pages:: 201–218

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401205375_014

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Evil is like the romantic "sublime": it is beyond the limit, beyond the range and limits within which human nature can cope with reality and find balance. Evil generates a disproportionate lack of human balance. But the responses it evokes are disproportionate as well. They have been contaminated by the disproportionality evil brings about. The evil to which Hamlet is exposed in Shakespeare's Hamlet consists of fratricide, illegitimate succession, and incest. The coping strategy Hamlet is expected to practice is revenge. Does revenge represent a coping strategy that has the potential to balance the political, social, moral, and psychological wrong brought about by human evil? Shakespeare's work, and Hamlet in particular, tells the story of evil's complexities. Twelve literary critics will shed their light on Shakespeare's sense of tragic revenge.

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Coping with Evil in Religion and Culture

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Series: Currents of Encounter, Volume: 35 and Currents of Encounter Online, Volume: 35

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Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2008

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