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Published: (2018)ĭer Umgang der frühen Kirche mit Tyrannenmord by: Heid, Stefan 1961- Published: (2002) Senecan sententiae in Sir Thomas More by: Mehan, Matthew, et al. Published: (2019)Ĭompassion and responsibility for disease: Trump, tragedy and mercy by: Hordern, Joshua, et al. "Like Phalaris in Every Way": 3 Maccabees and Its Portrait of Tyranny by: Dyer, Bryan, et al.
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Tragic views of the human condition: cross-cultural comparisons between views of human nature in Greek and Shakespearean tragedy and the Mahābhārata and Bhagavadgītā by: Minnema, Lourens, et al. Hamlet’s Religions by: Kaufman, Peter Iver 1946- Published: (2011) The Oxford Book of Shakespearean Tragedy by: Cramer, Michael Published: (2019) Stopping At Hell's Gate by: Medine, Carolyn M. Published: (2017)įree Will in Hamlet? by: Oser, Lee 1958-, et al.
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In the Name of the Father: Revenge and Unsacramental Death in Hamlet by: Zysk, Jay, et al. Swimming against the Tide: How the Monks of Medikion Challenged Traditional Notions of Sainthood by: Krausmüller, Dirk 1962- Published: (2020)Ī Secret Papal Brief on Tyrannicide during the Counterreformation by: Lewy, Guenter 1923- Published: (1957) Is There, If Not Virtue, Any Moral Value to Be Found in Payback? by: Flescher, Andrew Published: (2020) "Great Command O'Ersways the Order": Purgatory, Revenge, and Maimed Rites in Hamlet by: Beauregard, David Published: (2007)Īwe, tragedy and the human condition by: Halstead *, J. Katharsiskonzeptionen vor Aristoteles: Published: (2007) Juicio, deposición y occisión del tirano en Francisco Suárez by: Font Oporto, Pablo Published: (2019) These are the opening words in a soliloquy from Hamlet in Act. The quote comes from William Shakespeares play Hamlet. Political assassination and tyrannicide: traditions and contemporary conflicts by: Johnstone, Brian 1938- Published: (2003) Few lines in English literature are quoted as often as To be, or not to be. Rethinking Anger as a Desire for Payback: A Modified Thomistic View by: Rippentrop Schnell, Jan, et al. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms. The play’s treatment of tyranny may have been a call to action for Shakespeare’s contemporary audience. But from what cause he will by no means speak. To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer. Hamlet’s choice not to act is highly significant-and ironically Shakespearean. The claim is further supported by Aquinas’s six conditions for the right use of anger and vengeance as found in his Summa Theologica. Shakespeare is deliberately and successfully upending the Aristotelian model, while yet fulfilling its definitions and expectations. Based on the classical model of tragedy as presented by Aristotle in his Poetics and further informed by his Ethics and Politics, the essay identifies the climax of the play in order to determine the playwright’s argument about what should have happened instead of what did-namely, the hero should have removed the tyrant Claudius when given the opportunity at Act 3, Scene 3. Abstract This essay considers Shakespeare through Aristotelianism and Thomism to explore Hamlet as a meditation on tyranny.