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Shakespeare's virtuous theatre : power, capacity and the good / edited by Kent Lehnhof, Julia Reinhard Lupton and Carolyn Sale.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
- Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Virtue in literature.
- Virtues in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This collection of essays explores how the Shakespearean drama enacts ancient virtues and conceptualises new ones in complex fictional scenarios that test virtues for their continuing value. Contributors approach the virtues as a source of imaginative, affective and intellectual nourishment and consider how Shakespeare's art increases our capacity for new pursuits of the good. Examining Shakespeare's virtuous theatre in tragic, comic and romance modes and from ethical, theatrical and political perspectives, this volume establishes virtue as a framework for a socially, environmentally and spiritually renewed literary criticism. Contributors balance historical depth and philosophical insight with the art of close reading as they contemplate the dynamic field of virtue - embodied, responsive, energetic and dynamic - as it ebbs and flows across time, among multiple wisdom traditions, and in the entangled lives and troubled circumstances of Shakespeare's characters.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Kent Lehnhof, Julia Reinhard Lupton and Carolyn Sale
- Part I: Ecologies of virtue
- Cordelia's fire / Carolyn Sale
- Voice, virtue, veritas: on truth and vocal feeling in King Lear / Katie Adkison
- Reading virtues: Shakespeare's animals / Karen Raber
- Part II: Virtue's performances
- Shakespeare and the virtue in complaining / Emily Shortslef
- Masculine virtù and feminine virtue in Much ado about nothing / Kristina Sutherland
- The virtue of humour in King Lear / Kent Lehnhof
- Vita energetica: Love's labour's lost and Shakespeare's maculate theatre / Ian Munro
- Part III: Virtue in transit
- Cymbeline and the renewal of constancy / Jesse M. Lander
- Cymbeline and the 'swan's nest' of Britain: insularity, chastity and Imogen's transnational virtues / Michael Gadaleto
- Sufi theoeroticism, the Sophianic feminine and Desdemona's tragic heroism / Unhae Park Langis
- Part IV: Sustaining virtue
- Enduring the eventual: a virtuous way of reading Shakespeare / Thomas J. Moretti
- Sustaining courage in the humanities: the example of Hamlet / Daniel Juan Gil
- On the virtue of grief / Michael Bristol
- Afterward / Kevin Curran.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Feb 2025).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-9907-4
- 1-4744-9906-6
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