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Thinking with Shakespeare : comparative and interdisciplinary essays for A.D. Nuttall / edited by William Poole and Richard Scholar.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2986 .T55 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Philosophy.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Philosophy.
- Nuttall, A. D. (Anthony David).
- Nuttall, A. D.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Festschriften.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 143 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Legenda, 2007.
- Summary:
- Shakespeare's works do not embody any doctrine or set of beliefs, as his critics have long been tempted to suggest, but they do stage encounters with certain kinds of thinking - ethical, political, epistemological, even metaphysical - that still concern us today. They can be shown to draw on ancient philosophies, such as Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism, either directly or through medieval and continental Renaissance thought. Or their scenarios can be likened to those of other kinds of intellectual argument, such as legal or theological discourse. The essays collected in this volume demonstrate the value of thinking with Shakespeare, either as embodied in Shakespeare's own creative programme or in our use of philosophical paradigms as an approach to his works. The contributors are Colin Burrow, Terence Cave, Gabriel Josipovoci, Charles Martindale, Stephen Medcalf, Subha Mukherji, A. D. Nuttall and N. K. Sugimura.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. Approaches. Why Shakespeare is not Michelangelo / Colin Burrow
- The opinion of Pythagoras / Gabriel Josipovici
- Shakespeare Philosophus / Charles Martindale
- pt. 2. Investigations. False trials and the impulse to try in Shakespeare and his contemporaries / Subha Mukherji
- Two concepts of reality in Antony and Cleopatra / N.K. Sugimura
- Dreaming, looking, and seeing: Shakespeare and a myth of resurrection / Stephen Medcalf
- pt. 3. When Shakespeare met Montaigne / Terence Cave
- The last word / A.D. Nuttall.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This collection of essays arises from a symposium on "Shakespeare and Philosophy" held in honour of A.D. Nuttall in New College, Oxford, in October 2004.
- Cartoon on upper board by A.D. Nuttall.
- ISBN:
- 9781904350842
- 1904350844
- OCLC:
- 122954048
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