| Description |
234 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Blackwell great minds |
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Blackwell great minds.
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| Contents |
A natural philosopher -- Lust in action: Shakespeare's ideas on sex and gender -- What is honour?: Shakespeare's ideas on politics and political theory -- Hold the mirror up to nature: Shakespeare's ideas on writing and acting -- What form of prayer can serve my turn?: Shakespeare's ideas on religious controversy and issues of faith -- Is man no more than this?: Shakespeare's ideas on scepticism, doubt, stoicism, pessimism, misanthropy -- Here our play has ending: ideas of closure in the late plays -- Credo |
| Summary |
"Shakespeare was not, strictly speaking, a philosopher. That is, he did not write essays or treatises arguing philosophical positions or proposing an all-embracing philosophical scheme. However, we do have the plays and poems - and they collectively give evidence of a deep moral and intellectual cornmitrnent that we can locate in what we call 'Shakespeare', meaning not only the plays and poems themselves, but the multitudinous responses they have elicited over the four centuries or so since Shakespeare wrote them." "Asking what the plays and poems suggest in continual debate about an array of topics - sex and gender, politics and political theory, writing and acting, religious controversy and issues of faith, scepticism and misanthropy, and closure - we can delve into the philosophy of Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist, and a 'great mind'."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [218]-226) and index |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
2008006980 |
| ISBN |
9781405167956 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1405167955 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9781405167963 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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1405167963 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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