Shakespeare S Philosopher King
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Shakespeare S Philosopher King
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Author : Guy Story Brown
language : en
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Release Date : 2010
Shakespeare S Philosopher King written by Guy Story Brown and has been published by Mercer University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Drama categories.
The Tragedy of King Lear precedes Cymbeline King of Britain as the earliest of Shakespeare's English history plays in the sense that it represents a primordial age when the "sceptered isle" of "England" was hardly yet even clearly differentiated from "Britain." The decay and fall of the world is visible, i.e., is originally conceivable as a subject, only from a vantage that is in some sense not itself limited to error or fault. This resolution cannot be a thesis that is merely proved from outside but a vantage that emerges in a careful reading of the 1623 Folio text from the beginning that is alert both to the whole of Shakespeare's corpus and its cultural context. The reading shows The Tragedy of King Lear to be a Thomistic portrayal of the problem and reality of kingship, in which there emerges an increasingly explicit and profoundbut unsentimentalChristianity that seems as much Augustinian as Thomistic.
The Philosopher S English King
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Author : Leon Harold Craig
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2015
The Philosopher S English King written by Leon Harold Craig and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book on Shakespeare's Henriad studies the tetralogy as a work of political thought. Leon Craig, author of two previous volumes on Shakespeare's political thought, argues that the four plays present Shakespeare's teaching on the question of who has the right to rule, one of the perennial questions of political philosophy. Offering original interpretations of each of the plays, Craig discusses divine right in Richard II, political upheaval and disputed rule in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and just rule in Henry V. In addition Craig shows how the four plays constitute one narrative -- starting in Richard II and concluding in Henry V -- telling the story of the making of a legitimate ruler, England's most famous warrior king, Henry V. The Philosopher's English King provides a meticulous account of Shakespeare's philosophy of legitimate rule, contributing to the burgeoning scholarship on Shakespeare as a political thinker and showing yet again that the poet deserves to be placed among the ranks of such political philosophers as Plato, Machiavelli, and Hobbes. Leon Craig is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Alberta.
Of Philosophers And Kings
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Author : Leon Harold Craig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Of Philosophers And Kings written by Leon Harold Craig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Drama categories.
This innovative work argues that Shakespeare was as great a philosopher as he was a poet, and that his greatness as a poet derived even more from his power as a thinker than from his genius for linguistic expression. Accordingly, Leon Craig's interpretation of the plays - focusing primarily on Macbeth and King Lear, but including extensive comments on Othello, The Winter's Tale, and Measure for Measure - are intended to demonstrate what can be gained from reading Shakespeare 'philosophically.' Shakespeare, Craig argues, had a persistent fascination with the relationship between politics and philosophy, and even more precisely, with the idea of a philosophical ruler. Macbeth and King Lear are given detailed exposition for the special light they cast on tensions between philosophy and politics, knowledge and power. They show how the pursuit of an adequate understanding of certain practical issues - transient yet recurring - necessarily leads to considerations that far transcend the particular circumstances in which these practical problems arise. Metaphysics, cosmology, and man's confrontation with nature, were made dramatically manifest by Shakespeare to challenge and promote philosophic activity among his audience and readers. Unconventional in its approach, but working within the tradition of such critics as Allan Bloom and Harry Jaffa, Craig's book makes a substantial contribution to understanding the general principles of Shakespearean drama.
Shakespeare S Prince
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Author : Guy Story Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Shakespeare S Prince written by Guy Story Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth is Shakespeare's most thoughtful history play it was about this play that Schlegel made his famous comment that "Shakespeare was as profound a historian as a poet." Yet, this last play, Shakespeare's lone Tudor history, was popular at its first playing and has proven a crowd pleaser whenever it has been performed. Ever seductive in its trappings of power and emphatic pomp and pageantry, it delineates in a political way the characters of England's most surpassing statesman and her finest queen, as well as of the king thought most infamous of all by celebrated later English writers like Hazlitt and Dickens. The dramatist here takes only the highest view of all these personages and presents each of them in such an order that they may be seen by all for who and what they truly are. The study proceeds as an interpretive commentary, act-by-act and scene-by-scene, and should be considered with the text of the play at one's elbow.
Shakespeare And The Good Life
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Author : David Lowenthal
language : en
Publisher: Rl Innactive Titles
Release Date : 1997
Shakespeare And The Good Life written by David Lowenthal and has been published by Rl Innactive Titles this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Drama categories.
In separate chapters on The Tempest, King Lear, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, and A Midsummer Night's Dream (many of which have appeared elsewhere in journals or essay collections), the author explores Shakespeare's philosophy and examines its treatment by other critics, from Ben Jonson to A.C. Bradley. He contends that Shakespeare was an independently thinking follower of the classical philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and explores such themes as the playwright's treatment of the philosopher king, natural versus conventional justice, contending views of the best regime and the best life, the moral character of the universe, the Biblical alternative to classical philosophy, and the Christian view of temperance. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Shakespeare S Philosophy
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Author : Colin McGinn
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-03-17
Shakespeare S Philosophy written by Colin McGinn and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-17 with Poetry categories.
Shakespeare’s plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here, into six of Shakespeare’s greatest plays–A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest. In his brilliant commentary, McGinn explores Shakespeare’s philosophy of life and illustrates how he was influenced, for example, by the essays of Montaigne that were translated into English while Shakespeare was writing. In addition to chapters on the great plays, there are also essays on Shakespeare and gender and his plays from the aspects of psychology, ethics, and tragedy. As McGinn says about Shakespeare, “There is not a sentimental bone in his body. He has the curiosity of a scientist, the judgment of a philosopher, and the soul of a poet.” McGinn relates the ideas in the plays to the later philosophers such as David Hume and the modern commentaries of critics such as Harold Bloom. The book is an exhilarating reading experience, especially for students who are discovering the greatest writer in English.
Rethinking Shakespeare S Political Philosophy
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Author : Alex Schulman
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-21
Rethinking Shakespeare S Political Philosophy written by Alex Schulman and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 the first attempt by a political theorist to read Shakespeare within the trajectory of political thought as one of the authors of modernity. From Shakespeare's interpretation of ancient and medieval politics to his wrestling with issues of legitimacy, religious toleration, family conflict, and economic change, Alex Schulman shows how Shakespeare produces a fascinating map of modern politics at its crisis-filled birth. As a result, there are brand new readings of Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear, Richard II and Henry IV, parts I and II , The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure.
Philosophers On Shakespeare
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Author : Paul A. Kottman
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2009
Philosophers On Shakespeare written by Paul A. Kottman and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume assembles for the first time writings from the past two hundred years by philosophers engaging the dramatic work of William Shakespeare.
The Philosophy Of The Plays Of Shakespeare Unfolded
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Author : Delia Salter Bacon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
The Philosophy Of The Plays Of Shakespeare Unfolded written by Delia Salter Bacon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with Philosophy in literature categories.
The Philosophy Of William Shakespeare Delineating In Seven Hundred And Fifty Passages Selected From His Plays The Multiform Phases Of The Human Mind
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
The Philosophy Of William Shakespeare Delineating In Seven Hundred And Fifty Passages Selected From His Plays The Multiform Phases Of The Human Mind written by William Shakespeare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with categories.