{"product_id":"the-drama-of-complaint-emily-shortslef-9780192868480","title":"The Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's Tragedy","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book-length study of complaint in Shakespearean drama. Emily Shortslef makes two main arguments. One is that poetic forms of complaint--expressions of discontent and unhappiness--operate in and across the period's literary and nonliterary discourses as sites of thought about human flourishing, the subject of ethical inquiry. The other is that Shakespearean configurations of these ubiquitous forms in theatrical scenes of complaint model new ways of thinking about ethical subjectivity, or ways of desiring, acting, and living consonant with notions of the good life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Drama of Complaint\u003c\/em\u003e develops these interlocking arguments through five chapters that demonstrate the thinking materialized in and through five prolific forms of complaint (existential, judicial, spectral, female, and deathbed). Built around some of the most electrifying scenes in Shakespearean tragedy, each chapter is a case study that identifies and theorizes one of these forms of complaint; delineates a matrix of ethical thought that structures that form; and develops a new reading of a Shakespearean tragedy to which that form of complaint and those ethical questions are integral.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily Shortslef\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192868489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192868480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.38w x 0.73d","brand":"Emily Shortslef","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46217096823039,"sku":"9780192868480","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_129af569-6b3d-4ae7-9512-d01bcd2893ea.jpg?v=1728514273","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-drama-of-complaint-emily-shortslef-9780192868480","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}