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Shakespeare and moral agency / edited by Michael D. Bristol.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Continuum Shakespeare studies.
- Continuum Shakespeare studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Ethics.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Shakespeare and Moral Agency presents a collection of new essays by literary scholars and philosophers considering character and action in Shakespeare's plays as heuristic models for the exploration of some salient problems in the field of moral inquiry. Together they offer a unified presentation of an emerging orientation in Shakespeare studies, drawing on recent work in ethics, philosophy of mind, and analytic aesthetics to construct a powerful framework for the critical analysis of Shakespeare's works. Contributors suggest new possibilities for the interpretation of Shakespearean drama by e
- Contents:
- Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Is Shakespeare a Moral Philosopher?; Part I: The Agency of Agents; 1 Moral Agency and Its Problems in Julius Caesar: Political Power, Choice, and History; 2 A Shakespearean Phenomenology of Moral Conviction; 3 Wordplay and the Ethics of Self-Deception in Shakespeare's Tragedies; 4 Excuses, Bepissing, and Non-being: Shakespearean Puzzles about Agency; Part II: Social Norms; 5 Conduct (Un)becoming or, Playing the Warrior in Macbeth; 6 To "Tempt the Rheumy and Unpurged Air": Contagion and Agency in Julius Caesar
- 7 Ethical Questions and Questionable Morals in Measure for Measure and The Merchant of Venice8 "The oldest hath borne most": the Burdens of Aging and the Morality of Uselessness in King Lear; Part III: Moral Characters; 9 Quoting the Enemy: Character, Self-Interpretation, and the Question of Perspective in Shakespeare; 10 The Fool, the Blind, and the Jew; 11 "Unlucky Deeds" and the Shame of Othello; 12 Agency and Repentance in The Winter's Tale; 13 What's Virtue Ethics Got to Do With It? Shakespearean Character as Moral Character; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N
- OP; R; S; T; W; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [200]-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612466717
- 9781472555175
- 1472555171
- 9781282466715
- 1282466712
- 9781441183736
- 1441183736
- OCLC:
- 601864423
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