Shakespeare and Renaissance ethics

Shakespeare and Renaissance ethics /

Written by a distinguished international team of contributors, this volume explores Shakespeare's vivid depictions of moral deliberation and individual choice in light of Renaissance debates about ethics. Examining the intellectual context of Shakespeare's plays, the essays illuminate Shak...

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Other Authors: Gray, Patrick, 1978- (Editor), Cox, John D., 1945- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Ethics.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
Shakespeare, William > 1564-1616
1500-1699
Moral conditions in literature.
Ethics, Renaissance, in literature.
Literature and morals > History > 16th century.
Literature and morals > History > 17th century.
18.05 English literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Ethics.
Literature and morals.
Ethik
Moral
Etik i litteraturen.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Rethinking Shakespeare and ethics / Patrick Gray and John D. Cox
  • Fame, eternity, and Shakespeare's Romans / Gordon Braden
  • Shakespeare and the ethics of laughter / Indira Ghose
  • Aristotelian shame and Christian mortification in Love's Labour's Lost / Jane Kingsley-Smith
  • Shakespeare's Virgil : empathy and The Tempest / Leah Whittington
  • Shakespeare's prayers / John D. Cox
  • The morality of milk : Shakespeare and the ethics of nursing / Beatrice Groves
  • Hamlet the rough-hewer : moral agency and the consolations of Reformation thought / Russell M. Hillier
  • "Wrying but a little"? : marriage, punishment, and forgiveness in Cymbeline / Robert S. Miola
  • "Hide thy selfe" : Montaigne, Hamlet, and Epicurean ethics / Patrick Gray
  • Conscience and the god-surrogate in Montaigne and Measure for Measure / William M. Hamlin
  • Shakespeare, Montaigne, and classical reason / Peter Holbrook
  • Madness, proverbial wisdom, and philosophy in King Lear / Peter Mack.

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