Julia Reinhard Lupton is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author or co-author of five books on Shakespeare, including Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life (2018), Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life (2013), and Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology (2006). She is the co-director of the New Swan Shakespeare Center at UC, Irvine. Donovan Sherman is Associate Professor of English at Seton Hall University, in South Orange, New Jersey. His most recent book is The Philosopher's Toothache: Embodied Stoicism in Early Modern English Drama (2021). He is also the author of Second Death: Theatricalities of the Soul in Shakespeare's Drama (2016) and co-author of the last two editions of the textbook Theatre Brief.

'This capacious and beautifully modulated book addresses “virtue” in all its early modern senses: force, potential, the power inherent in things, codes of human behavior, personal character, displays of skill. The forty contributors have produced many books in one. Shakespeare and Virtue combines philosophy, social history, theatre history, and political critique, considered across time from classical antiquity to the political conflicts of Shakespeare's day to the competing ideologies of today's world. Shakespeare and Virtue is a handbook to ways of thinking and acting in the early modern past but also in the here-and-now.' Bruce R. Smith, General Editor, The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

• Introduction Julia Reinhard Lupton and Donovan Sherman; Part I. Shakespeare and Virtue Ethics: 1. Arete Jeffrey S. Doty and Daniel Bloom; 2. Dynamis (dynamism, capacity) and energeia (actuality) Christopher Crosbie; 3. Techne Jeffrey Gore; 4. Eudaimonia Katarzyna Lecky; 5. Ethos Joseph Turner; 6. Hexis (habit) Kate Narveson; 7. Stoicism Donovan Sherman; 8. Skepticism James Kuzner; 9. Askesis and asceticism Jennifer R. Rust; 10. Shakespeare's moral compass Neema Parvini; Part II. Shakespeare's Virtues: 11. The four cardinal virtues: Caesar's mantle and practical wisdom Kevin Curran; 12. The three theological virtues Sarah Beckwith; 13. Prudence: the wisdom of 'hazarding all' in the merchant of Venice Kelly Lehtonen; 14. Friendship Sean Keilen; 15. Patience Nick Moschovakis; 16. Care Benjamin Parris; 17. Hospitality Joan Pong Linton; 18. Respect Sanford Budick; 19. Chastity Jennifer Flaherty; 20. Wit Indira Ghose; 21. Service Joseph Sterrett; 22. Humility Richard Wilson; 23. Kindness Paul Yachnin; 24. Stewardship and resilience: the environmental virtues Jessica Rosenberg; 25. Cognitive virtue and global ecosociability Donald Wehrs; 26. Trust: don't ever change David Carroll Simon; 27. Being 'free' as a virtue Richard Strier; Part III. Shakespeare and Global Virtue Traditions: 28. Shakespeare's rabbinic virtues: a listening ear Stephanie Shirilan; 29. Islamic virtues: ethics in the premodern ottoman empire Yasin Basaran; 30. Persian virtues: hospitality, tolerance and peacebuilding in the age of Shakespeare Sheiba Kian Kaufman; 31. Buddhist virtues: Equanimity, mindfulness and compassion in hamlet Unhae Langis; 32. The virtues in black theology Vincent Lloyd; 33. Virtue on Robben Island David Schalkwyk; 34. Globability: the virtue of worlding Jane Hwang Degenhardt; Part IV. Virtuous Performances: 35. Dramaturgy: the virtue/virtuosity of unfolding hamlet's story Freddie Rokem; 36. Performing chastity: the marina project Katharine Craik and Ewan Fernie; 37. Villains in prison, villains on stage: is Shakespeare really salvific? Mariacristina Cavecchi; 38. Teaching Shakespeare and moral agency Michael Bristol.