Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy – serie
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43 produkter
Rethinking Shakespeare's Political Philosophy
From Lear to Leviathan
E-bok, 2014
375 kr
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A new interpretation of Shakespeare’s plays as a unified statement of early modern political theory What were Shakespeare’s politics? As this study demonstrates, contained in Shakespeare’s plays is an astonishingly powerful reckoning with the tradition of Western political thought, one whose depth …
Shakespeare’s Theater of Judgment
Six Keywords
Av Kevin Curran
Inbunden, 2024
1343 kr
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Shakespeare's Theater of Judgment makes a case for the social and ethical importance of judgment in politics, law, art, and everyday life. It delves deep into the intellectual culture of Renaissance England and the dynamics of Shakespearean theater to recover a positive, collaborative, and …
Shakespeare’s Theater of Judgment
Six Keywords
Av Kevin Curran
Häftad, 2024
321 kr
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Shakespeare’s Theater of Judgment makes a case for the social and ethical importance of judgment in politics, law, art, and everyday life. It delves deep into the intellectual culture of Renaissance England and the dynamics of Shakespearean theater to recover a positive, collaborative, and …
Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds
Finding Descartes on the Early Modern Stage
Inbunden, 2026
1455 kr
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Most scholars of early modern English literature consider Cartesian rationalism to be a poor theoretical lens. Though René Descartes figures as one of the most important philosophers in the early modern period, and in the history of philosophy itself, he has received scorn from literary scholars of …
Rethinking Shakespeare's Political Philosophy
From Lear to Leviathan
Häftad, 2027
289 kr
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What were Shakespeare’s politics? As this study demonstrates, contained in Shakespeare’s plays is an astonishingly powerful reckoning with the tradition of Western political thought, one whose depth and scope places Shakespeare alongside Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes and others.This book is …
Shakespeare in Hindsight
Counterfactual Thinking and Shakespearean Tragedy
Av Amir Khan
Inbunden, 2015
1531 kr
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We know William Shakespeare matters but we cannot pinpoint, precisely, why he matters. Lacking reasons why, we do our best to involve him in others, or involve others in him. He has been branded many times over—as Catholic, Protestant, Materialist, Marxist, Psychoanalytic, Feminist, Postcolonial, …
Derrida Reads Shakespeare
Inbunden, 2020
2437 kr
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Explores Jacques Derrida’s distinctive approach to ShakespeareOffers the first comprehensive and accessible account and discussion of Derrida’s engagement with ShakespeareChallenges the way we have traditionally come to think about the interdisciplinary relationship between literature and …
Play and the Thing
A Phenomenology of Shakespearean Theatre
Inbunden, 2026
1273 kr
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet insisted that ‘the play’s the thing’; Edmund Husserl’s philosophy advised us to (re)turn our attention ‘back to the things themselves!’ How might a careful, detailed exploration of the basic ‘things’ of Shakespearean theatre illuminate his plays in performance? Taking up this …
Play and the Thing
A Phenomenology of Shakespearean Theatre
E-bok, 2026
1687 kr
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet insisted that ‘the play’s the thing’; Edmund Husserl’s philosophy advised us to (re)turn our attention ‘back to the things themselves!’ How might a careful, detailed exploration of the basic ‘things’ of Shakespearean theatre illuminate his plays in performance? Taking up this …
Play and the Thing
A Phenomenology of Shakespearean Theatre
E-bok, 2026
1687 kr
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet insisted that ‘the play’s the thing’; Edmund Husserl’s philosophy advised us to (re)turn our attention ‘back to the things themselves!’ How might a careful, detailed exploration of the basic ‘things’ of Shakespearean theatre illuminate his plays in performance? Taking up this …
Second Death
Theatricalities of the Soul in Shakespeare's Drama
Inbunden, 2016
1531 kr
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Illuminates our understanding of the soul as a historically and philosophically vital concept through Shakespearean dramaSecond Death seeks to revitalise our understanding of the soul as a philosophically profound, theoretically radical, and ultimately—and counterintuitively—theatrically realised …
Shakespearean Melancholy
Philosophy, Form, and the Transformation of Comedy
Av J.F. Bernard
Inbunden, 2018
1531 kr
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Argues that Shakespeare transforms philosophies of comedy and melancholy by revising them concomitantlyIconic as Hamlet is, Shakespearean comedy showcases an extraordinary reliance on melancholy that ultimately reminds us of the porous demarcation between laughter and sorrow. This richly …
Chaste Value
Economic Crisis, Female Chastity and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare's Stage
Inbunden, 2017
2344 kr
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Examines the way that theatrical representations of chastity inform broader concerns about the commoditisation of people in early capitalismChaste Value reassesses chastity’s significance in early modern drama, arguing that presentations of chastity inform the stage’s production of early capitalist …
Is Shylock Jewish?
Citing Scripture and the Moral Agency of Shakespeare's Jews
Av Sara Coodin
Inbunden, 2017
1531 kr
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A detailed exploration of the significance of Hebrew Biblical stories in The Merchant of VeniceWhat happens when we consider Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice as a play with ‘real’ Jewish characters who are not mere ciphers for anti-Semitic Elizabethan stereotypes? Is Shylock Jewish studies …
Shakespeare in Hindsight
Counterfactual Thinking and Shakespearean Tragedy
Av Amir Khan
Häftad, 2017
404 kr
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This bold new study uses counterfactual thinking to enable us to feel, rather than to explain, Shakespeare s tragedies.
Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic
Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War
Av Patrick Gray
Inbunden, 2018
2437 kr
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Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche. In Julius Caesar …
Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic
Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War
Av Patrick Gray
Häftad, 2020
430 kr
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Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche. In Julius Caesar …
Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare
Metaphor, Cognition and Eros
Inbunden, 2020
2437 kr
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Explores the role of the mind in creating erotic experience on the early modern stageAdvances a new critical methodology that credits the role of cognition in the experience of erotic desire, and pleasure itselfExplores the philosophical underpinnings of erotic metaphors, drawing from ancient, …
Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare
Metaphor, Cognition and Eros
Häftad, 2021
686 kr
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To 'conceive' desire is to acknowledge the generative potential of the erotic imagination, its capacity to impart form and make meaning out of the most elusive experiences. Drawing from cognitive theories about the metaphorical nature of thought, Gillian Knoll traces the contours of three …
Shakespeare's Fugitive Politics
Häftad, 2018
778 kr
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Establishes Shakespeare's plays as some of the period's most speculative political literature 'Shakespeare's Fugitive Politics' makes the case that Shakespeare's plays reveal there is always something more terrifying to the king than rebellion. The book seeks to move beyond the presumption that …
Shakespeare’s Moral Compass
Inbunden, 2018
2183 kr
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Overturns orthodox thinking about morality in Shakespeare’s plays by updating our understanding of the human mindThis ground-breaking study fearlessly combines latest research in evolutionary psychology, historical scholarship and philosophy to answer a question that has eluded critics for …
Shakespeare’s Moral Compass
Häftad, 2020
373 kr
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Overturns orthodox thinking about morality in Shakespeare’s plays by updating our understanding of the human mindThis ground-breaking study fearlessly combines latest research in evolutionary psychology, historical scholarship and philosophy to answer a question that has eluded critics for …
Shakespeare and the Truth-Teller
Confronting the Cynic Ideal
Inbunden, 2019
2340 kr
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Examines the early modern reception of classical Cynicism and the rise of literary realismPromotes a new understanding of the intersection between literary character and ethical character, especially with respect to literature’s role in facilitating belief in the revolutionary potential of …
Shakespeare and the Truth-Teller
Confronting the Cynic Ideal
Häftad, 2021
312 kr
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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 debates that persist in later centuries and inform major developments in Western intellectual …
Revenge Tragedy and Classical Philosophy on the Early Modern Stage
Inbunden, 2018
2437 kr
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Examines the influence of classical philosophy on revenge narratives by Shakespeare and his contemporariesThis book discovers within early modern revenge tragedy the surprising shaping presence of a wide array of classical philosophies not commonly affiliated with the genre. By recovering the …
Revenge Tragedy and Classical Philosophy on the Early Modern Stage
Häftad, 2020
762 kr
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Examines the influence of classical philosophy on revenge narratives by Shakespeare and his contemporariesThis book discovers within early modern revenge tragedy the surprising shaping presence of a wide array of classical philosophies not commonly affiliated with the genre. By recovering the …
Chaste Value
Economic Crisis, Female Chastity and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare's Stage
Häftad, 2019
845 kr
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Examines the way that theatrical representations of chastity inform broader concerns about the commoditisation of people in early capitalismChaste Value reassesses chastity’s significance in early modern drama, arguing that presentations of chastity inform the stage’s production of early capitalist …
Is Shylock Jewish?
Citing Scripture and the Moral Agency of Shakespeare's Jews
Av Sara Coodin
Häftad, 2019
778 kr
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A detailed exploration of the significance of Hebrew Biblical stories in The Merchant of VeniceWhat happens when we consider Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice as a play with ‘real’ Jewish characters who are not mere ciphers for anti-Semitic Elizabethan stereotypes? Is Shylock Jewish studies …
Immateriality and Early Modern English Literature
Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert
Inbunden, 2020
2521 kr
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Examines literary engagement with immateriality since the ‘material turn’ in early modern studiesProvides six case studies of works by Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert, offering new readings of important literary texts of the English Renaissance alongside detailed chapters outlining attitudes …
