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All The World's Ashamed, Peter David Lane
All The World's Ashamed, Peter David Lane
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
This project is an analysis of three Shakespeare plays through three different ways of understanding shame. Othello, Coriolanus, and Measure for Measure are inspected through a social, bodily, and religious understanding of shame, respectively. The purpose of this tripartite view of shame is to reveal the many different ways in which shame makes itself a part of our lives. The first paradigm is based off of Erving Goffman’s 1956 sociology text, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, and explores how the ways social …