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Lincoln's Shakespearean Education

Av Ted J. Richards, Lee Trepanier

Del i serien Politics, Literature, & Film

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Few figures have received more popular and scholarly attention than Abraham Lincoln – and yet few works have focused on the impact of his self-education. Tradition holds that this education consisted primarily in reading “Shakespeare and the Bible.” Taking this characterization seriously, Lincoln’s Shakesperean Education focuses on the great American statesman’s engagement with the great English playwright, while still giving Scripture its due along the way. Through close and careful readings of the president’s favorite plays, Ted Richards demonstrates how Shakespeare influenced Lincoln’s political thought, rhetoric, and statesmanship, and examines the impact this poetry had on his personal life. Students of Lincoln and Shakespeare will benefit from the new and sometimes surprising insights that Richards presents, while ambitious and aspiring autodidacts will find in the great emancipator a truly liberal course of study and a worthy model to emulate.
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Ted J. Richards is assistant professor at Utah Valley University’s Center for Constitutional Studies where he teaches on American political thought and political philosophy. Additionally, he is the director of the Telos Academy (a project of the Claremont Institute) and a private homeschool tutor in literature and history. He received his PhD in political science from Claremont Graduate University. He lives in Utah with his family.

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Ted J. Richards has written a most lucid and discerning account of Abraham Lincoln's decades-long engagement with the poetic, political, and historical wisdom of the teacher par excellence of the English-speaking peoples, William Shakespeare. Richards's rich and revealing account of Lincoln's Shakespearean Education allows us to better appreciate how our seventeenth president's deep-seated engagement with the wisdom of the Bard, especially Macbeth, Hamlet, and The Henriad, allowed him to combine ambition and moderation in his own soul, while illuminating human nature in its heights and its depths. Richard's readings of both Lincoln and Shakespeare are always instructive as is his treatment of natural right, informed by biblical wisdom, as the true alternative to the dead-end that is the 'divine right of kings.'

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