Shakespearean issues : agency, skepticism, and other puzzles /

"This book shows Shakespeare confronting political, social, and philosophical issues: the motives of characters and ethical judgments on them; the defining features of legal systems; the problem of economic inequality; the limits and costs of power in colonial and other situations; the mind...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Strier, Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Temas:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Philosophy.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Political and social views.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
Philosophy
Political and social views
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The leading thought
  • Part I. Individuals. Excuses, Bepissing, and non-being : Shakespearean puzzles about agency
  • Appendix. "Say it is my humour"
  • Happy Hamlet
  • Resisting complicity : ethical judgment and King Lear
  • Part II. Systems. Shakespeare and legal systems : the better the worse (but not vice versa)
  • King Lear and human needs
  • The tempest (1) : power
  • The tempest (2) : labor
  • The tempest (3) : humanism
  • Part III. Beliefs. Shakespeare and skepticism (1) : religion
  • Shakespeare and skepticism (2) : epistemology
  • Mind, nature, heterodoxy, and iconoclasm in The winter's tale.

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