Shakespeare The Renaissance Humanist
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Shakespeare The Renaissance Humanist
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Author : Anthony Raspa
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-03-15
Shakespeare The Renaissance Humanist written by Anthony Raspa and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
During the Renaissance, moral philosophy came to permeate the minds of many, including the spectators that poured into Shakespeare's Globe theatre. Examining these strains of thought that formed the basis for humanism, Raspa delves into King Lear, Hamlet, among others to unlock what influence this had on both Shakespeare and his interpreters.
Shakespeare The Renaissance Humanist
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Shakespeare The Renaissance Humanist written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Ethics in literature categories.
"Shakespeare the Renaissance Humanist is a study of the moral philosophy that underlay the"street" humanism in the mind of Shakespeare's spectator when he went to see Hamlet or King Lear at the Globe. The work examines how his plays reflected the moral philosophy that his spectators were living in their daily lives"
Shakespeare S Humanism
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Author : Robin Headlam Wells
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-12-08
Shakespeare S Humanism written by Robin Headlam Wells and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Renaissance humanists believed that if you want to build a just society you must begin with the facts of human nature. This book argues that the idea of a universal human nature was as important to Shakespeare as it was to every other Renaissance writer. In doing so it questions the central principle of post-modern Shakespeare criticism. Postmodernists insist that the notion of defining a human essence was alien to Shakespeare and his contemporaries; as radical anti-essentialists, the Elizabethans were, in effect, postmodernists before their time. In challenging this claim Shakespeare's Humanism shows that for Shakespeare, as for every other humanist writer in this period, the key to all wise action was 'the knowledge of our selves and our human condition'.
Shakespeare And The Renaissance Concept Of Honor
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Author : Curtis Brown Watson
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-12-08
Shakespeare And The Renaissance Concept Of Honor written by Curtis Brown Watson and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Presenting a background study of honor, the author compares ancient concepts with the sympathetic restatements of them that appeared during the Renaissance. He places Shakespeare's plays in the context of these Renaissance ideas, pointing up the sharp conflict between Christian morality and the revived pagan humanism. He demonstrates by pertinent evidence from the plays that Shakespeare favored humanist values over Christian values. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Re Humanising Shakespeare
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Author : Andrew Mousley
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2007-06-19
Re Humanising Shakespeare written by Andrew Mousley 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 2007-06-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Can Shakespeare help us with the question of how to live? Re-Humanising Shakespeare argues that although Shakespeare himself contributed to the uncertainties of modern living, his work can still serve as a source of existential wisdom and guidance.The book examines through a wide range of Shakespeare's plays the conditions under which human beings flourish or perish. Love, ethics, emotion, vulnerability and humility are amongst the topics discussed as part of the book's argument that Shakespeare is continually at pains to reclaim the human from its complete liquefaction. Given the range and originality of its approach, Re-Humanising Shakespeare will make provocative reading for all those interested in Shakespeare, ethics and questions of literary value.
Elizabethan Humanism
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Author : Michael Pincombe
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-04
Elizabethan Humanism written by Michael Pincombe and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
The term 'humanist' originally referred to a scholar of Classical literature. In the Renaissance and particularly in the Elizabethan age, European intellectuals devoted themselves to the rediscovery and study of Roman and Greek literature and culture. This trend of Renaissance thought became known in the 19th century as 'humanism'. Often a difficult concept to understand, the term Elizabethan Humanism is introduced in Part One and explained in a number of different contexts. Part Two illustrates how knowledge of humanism allows a clearer understanding of Elizabethan literature, by looking closely at major texts of the Elizabethan period which include Spenser's, 'The Shepherd's Calendar'; Marlowe's 'Faustus' and Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.
Twelfth Night And The Renaissance Idea Of Man
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Author : Toni Rudat
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2010-06-22
Twelfth Night And The Renaissance Idea Of Man written by Toni Rudat and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, RWTH Aachen University (Institut für Anglistik), course: Shakespeare’s Comedies, language: English, abstract: SHAKESPEARE was one of the most famous renaissance writers. His play "Twelfth Night" was written during the English renaissance and maybe overlapped with the creation of the great tragedy Hamlet. The aim of this paper is to analyse in what way Shakespeare presented the characters of the play. Central to this discussion are the contemporary understandings of the human nature as well as the psychological assumptions concerning the mental distraction of people. It is undisputable that CICERO and his work "De officiis" had a great impact on the English renaissance humanists. The term “humanism” is a translation of the Italian word ‘umanista’ which denotes someone who teaches humanae literae. WELLS rightly claims that “the ruling ambition of the humanists was to recover the values of classical civilisation”. Their ideal form of government was “a just society, ruled by a wise and responsible oligarchy”. And “a humanist was someone who made it his business to understand humankind”. So now the audience of Twelfth Night is confronted with an unordered society that consists of characters that absolutely lack the renaissance ideal of how humans should be. It is proposed to show how SHAKESPEARE manages to reorder the mad state Illyria – the setting of the play. Moreover the process of metamorphosing into ideal humans in the sense of the Renaissance understanding will be traced. Since there are reams of publications on SHAKESPEARE’S works a choice of some of them had to be carried out. ROBIN WELLS’ monograph Shakespeare’s Humanism served as a basis for this paper. WELLS portrays a very detailed image of what concerned the English renaissance humanists. Moreover he classifies SHAKESPEARE and his plays in the contemporary world-view. In order to reconstruct the nature of melancholy and madness ROBERT BURTON’S monograph "The Anatomy of Melancholy" was consulted. In this way it was possible to develop an understanding of the renaissance notion on mental derangement. BURTON’S examinations of this topic will be checked against SHAKESPEARE’S way of presenting mental illnesses. In a final step the question will be answered in how far SHAKESPEARE must have been acquainted with the disease pattern of distracted subjects.
Shakespeare S Folly
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Author : Sam Hall
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-23
Shakespeare S Folly written by Sam Hall and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare’s drama. The discourse of folly’s wordplay, jubilant ironies, and vertiginous paradoxes furnish Shakespeare with a way of understanding that lays bare the hypocrisies and absurdities of the serious world. Like Erasmus, More, and Montaigne before him, Shakespeare employs folly as a mode of understanding that does not arrogantly insist upon the veracity of its own claims – a fool’s truth, after all, is spoken by a fool. Yet, as this study demonstrates, Shakespearean folly is not the sole preserve of professional jesters and garrulous clowns, for it is also apparent on a thematic, conceptual, and formal level in virtually all of his plays. Examining canonical histories, comedies, and tragedies, this study is the first to either contextualize Shakespearean folly within European humanist thought, or to argue that Shakespeare’s philosophy of folly is part of a subterranean strand of Western philosophy, which itself reflects upon the folly of the wise. This strand runs from the philosopher-fool Socrates through to Montaigne and on to Nietzsche, but finds its most sustained expression in the Critical Theory of the mid to late twentieth-century, when the self-destructive potential latent in rationality became an historical reality. This book makes a substantial contribution to the fields of Shakespeare, Renaissance humanism, Critical Theory, and Literature and Philosophy. It illustrates, moreover, how rediscovering the philosophical potential of folly may enable us to resist the growing dominance of instrumental thought in the cultural sphere.
Shakespeare Plautus And The Humanist Tradition
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Author : Wolfgang Riehle
language : en
Publisher: Ds Brewer
Release Date : 1990
Shakespeare Plautus And The Humanist Tradition written by Wolfgang Riehle and has been published by Ds Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Literary Criticism categories.
Wolfgang Riehle contends that recent scholarship has exaggerated theinfluence on Shakespeare of the native popular tradition, at theexpense of a full understanding of the importance that Roman, particularly Plautine, comedy would have had for an Elizabethan dramatist. Shakespeare is shown to have considered Plautus, as did the Renaissance humanists, a dramatist of great qualities from whom much could be learned. The study concentrates on Shakespeare's Comedy of Errorsand its two Plautine sources, the Menaechmi and Amphitruo. Riehle's approach reveals Shakespeare's relation to his sources and his idea of comedy in a new light. The later plays are examined in this context. Riehle also argues for the continuation in recognisable form of the New Comedy tradition throughout the middle ages and into the Renaissance.WOLFEGANG RIEHLE is Professor of English literature at Graz University; he studied English, German and Classical literature atTubingen, Durham and Munich.
Romance And Reformation
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Author : Robert B. Bennett
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 2000
Romance And Reformation written by Robert B. Bennett and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Drama categories.
Shakespeare explored this question in Measure for Measure at a time when the humanist consensus of roughly a century's duration in English culture seemed about to be eclipsed by a hardening of the positions of people who held opposing views on social issues."--BOOK JACKET.
