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TY  - THES
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ID  - bbbc2178
T1  - "'Piteous overthrows': Pity and Identity in Early Modern Literature"
AU  - Johnson, Toria Anne
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2026
LA  - English
AB  - "Explores the recognition of suffering and vulnerability across species boundaries, highlighting the use of pity to define humanity against the rest of the animal kingdom, and focusing in particular on how these questions are handled" in Tempest. "Contends that the early modern English interest in pity indicates a central worry about vulnerability, but also. . . a belief in the necessity of recognising shared, human weakness."
ER  -