Pity, Singular Disability, and the Makings of Shakespearean Tragedy in Julius Caesar

IF 0.2 3区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1353/sel.2022.0002

Pasquale S. Toscano

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Abstract

Abstract:Scholars often struggle to account for the many corporeal impairments in Julius Caesar. This article considers them constitutive to the play’s tragic poetics. As the falls of its great men prove inextricable from the falls, or failures, of their imbricated bodies and minds, unpitied psychosomatic downturn both precipitates and becomes a microcosm of its tragic counterpart. Attending to this convergence with the help of disability theory shines new light on Julius Caesar’s circular unity, the conspirators’ plot, and the quarrel scene. More importantly, it also situates the tragedy as a primer to the mutable interplay between pity and disability that subtends Shakespeare’s mature tragic praxis.

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《尤利乌斯·凯撒》中的怜悯、独特的残疾和莎士比亚悲剧的形成

摘要:学者们经常努力解释凯撒大帝的许多身体损伤。本文认为它们构成了该剧的悲剧诗学。正如伟大人物的堕落与他们支离破碎的身体和心灵的堕落或失败密不可分一样，毫无怜悯的身心衰退既促成了悲剧的发生，又成为悲剧的缩影。在残疾理论的帮助下关注这种趋同，为凯撒大帝的循环统一性、阴谋家的阴谋和争吵场面提供了新的视角。更重要的是，它还将悲剧作为一个引子，揭示了同情和残疾之间多变的相互作用，这种相互作用颠覆了莎士比亚成熟的悲剧实践。

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STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES-

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期刊介绍： SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.