Shakespeare and Wisdom : Ecumenical, Ecological and Ethical Horizons / edited by Unhae Park Langis and Julia Reinhard Lupton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Langis, Unhae Park, editor.

Lupton, Julia Reinhard, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wisdom in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2024]

Summary:

Explores how Shakespeare uses global wisdom literatures to encourage spiritual and moral growth and the arts of living in a connected world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

PART I: Shakespeare and the Oikumene

1. Wisdom Ecology: Mapping the Ancient Wisdom World into the Future

2. Sophia on the Cydnus: Antony and Cleopatra as Wisdom Literature

3. Like Prayers Divine: Shakespeares Sonnets as Spiritual Exercise

4. Morality on Stage: Free Will, Counsel and Self-Counsel in Shakespeare and Glissenti

PART II: Oikeiosis and Ecology

5. Jaques the Pythagorean: Ecognosis and Pythagorean Wisdom Literature in As You Like It

6. Sovereign Care and Natural Goodness: Stoic Wisdom in The Winters Tale

PART III: A Kinaesthetic Ethics of the Heart-Mind

7. Prajnaparamita and the Buddhist Path of Wisdom in King Lear

8. Loving Not Wisely But Too Well: Race, Religion and Sufi Theoeroticism in Othello

9. No Magistrate, No Engine, No Oil: Calvins Case (1608) and the Kinaesthetic Wisdom of The Tempest

PART IV: Grace-Notes of Creative Wisdom

10. Holding a Space for Possibility: A Conversation with Madeline Sayet

11. Wisdom and Welcome in Madeline Sayets Where We Belong

12. wetos, vitus, vecchia, vita

13. The Buddha and the Bard: On Shakespeare and Mindfulness

Afterword: Shakespeares Open O: Sounding Global Wisdoms into the Future

Notes on Contributors

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

1-3995-1658-2

1-3995-1659-0