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Author Hershinow, David, author

Title Shakespeare and the truth-teller : confronting the cynic ideal / David Hershinow
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 251 pages)
Series Edinburgh critical studies in Shakespeare and philosophy
Edinburgh critical studies in Shakespeare and philosophy.
Contents Introduction -- Part I: Our cynic legacy -- Cynicism and the courage of truth -- The realist turn: parrhêsia, character and the limits of didacticism -- Part II: Shakespeare's cynics -- Shakespeare's bitter fool: the politics and aesthetics of free speech -- Cynicism, melancholy and Hamlet's memento moriae -- Cash is king: Timon, Diogenes and the search for sovereign freedom -- Coda -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Highlighting the necessity of literary thinking to political philosophy, this book explores Shakespeare's responses to sixteenth-century debates over the revolutionary potential of Cynic critical activity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Philosophy.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject Cynicism in literature.
Realism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
Philosophy
Cynicism in literature
Realism in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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