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„Nem is tudom, miért vagyok szomorú”. A melankólia témája A velencei kalmárban

Sediánszky, Nóra (2026) „Nem is tudom, miért vagyok szomorú”. A melankólia témája A velencei kalmárban. THEATRON: SZÍNHÁZTUDOMÁNYI PERIODIKA, 20 (2). pp. 16-24. ISSN 1418-9941

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Abstract

This essay explores the concept of melancholy through Shakespeare’s works, especially The Merchant of Venice. Melancholy is a persistent state and takes root just outside of a person’s conscious understanding; the condition, described by the Greek term of “black bile”, is a manifestation of the sensitive and poetic spirit in the Renaissance, rehabilitated by Marsilio Ficino from the negative overtones of the Middle Ages. In Shakespeare’s time, melancholy was a “fashionable diseas”, a pathological mental state peculiar to the mens contemplatrix, both a disease and a spiritual energy, accompanied by symptoms of inexplicable sadness, pessimism, scepticism, decadence, alienation, and introversion.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: A szám vendégszerkesztői: Doma Petra, Jászay Tamás
Uncontrolled Keywords: Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Renaissance, melancholy, depression
Subjects: P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PN Literature (General) / irodalom általában > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater / színházművészet
SWORD Depositor: MTMT SWORD
Depositing User: MTMT SWORD
Date Deposited: 05 Jun 2026 09:18
Last Modified: 05 Jun 2026 09:18
URI: https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/239551

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