{"product_id":"shakespeares-compassion-9781350497580","title":"Shakespeares Compassion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis exploration of Shakespeare's engagement with compassion brings Shakespeare's classical literary heritage into conversation with key contemporary social and political debates addressing race, gender, sexuality and the relationship between humans and animals.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on both the history of emotions and Shakespearean classical studies, the author argues that Shakespeare's compassion both very precisely expresses his own historical and cultural moment and is at the same time the product of his close and continuous engagement with literature from the classical past. Through close readings of key plays, including \u003ci\u003eTitus Andronicus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRichard III\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKing Lear, \u003c\/i\u003eand the main classical sources  above all, Virgil's\u003ci\u003e Aeneid \u003c\/i\u003eand Ovid's \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e  this book argues that Shakespeare's dramatization of compassion, far from expressing a sense of universal empathy, reveals a complex early modern emotion available to be solicited, m\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863212884311,"sku":"9781350497580","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350497580.jpg?v=1759919966","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shakespeares-compassion-9781350497580","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}