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The Sight of Others’ Anguish

Part III explores the vocabulary of tenderness (from Lt. tendere, to stretch) in order to examine Shakespeare’s depiction of an ‘extended-subject’, one whose willingness to extend tenderly out towards the other becomes the condition of their generous, piteous, compassionate nature. Yet, as discussed in relation to The Tempest, to be tender towards the other is not only to attend to their needs, to tender oneself to them, or to extend towards them, but also to tenderly flinch (Lt. tenerum, delicate), to retract into oneself, refusing sympathetic contacts. Chapter 5 considers the cost of compassionate attention, asking if Miranda’s unguarded sympathies are naive in an age of tenderizing sensory and emotional impressionability, before analysing the plague-period poem, Venus and Adonis.