The Shakespearean Ethic John Vyvyan
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The Shakespearean Ethic
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Author : John Vyvyan
language : en
Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn Limited
Release Date : 2011
The Shakespearean Ethic written by John Vyvyan and has been published by Shepheard-Walwyn Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Drama categories.
"Originally published by Chatto & Windus in 1959, this book has long been out of print and largely neglected by Shakespearean scholars. It offers a viewpoint seldom considered: an unusual and exceptionally clear insight into Shakespeare's philosophy. It does so with freshness, modesty and conviction. Appreciating the danger Shakespeare faced in writing at a time of major religious intolerance, Vyvyan shows how subtly the plays explore aspects of the perennial philosophy allegorically. In doing so, Shakespeare raises the fundamental question of ethics: What ought we to do? &‘Shakespeare,' says the author, &‘is never ethically neutral. He is never in doubt as to whether the souls of his characters are rising or falling.' There is a constant pattern in the tragedies: &‘first the hero is untrue to his own self, then he casts out love, then conscience is gone - or rather inverted - and the devil enters into him.' Vyvyan shows us this pattern of damnation, or its counterpart - a pattern of regeneration - working out in certain plays, contrasting Hamlet with Measure for Measure and Othello with The Winter's Tale, where a similar dilemma and choice confront the hero. His intuitive insights also illumine Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Titus Andronicus which focus on the fall, whereas The Tempest explores most fully the pattern of regeneration and creative mercy."--Publisher.
The Shakespearean Ethic John Vyvyan
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Author : John Vyvyan
language : en
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Release Date : 1959
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The Shakespearean Ethic
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Author : John Vyvyan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Shakespearean Ethic written by John Vyvyan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Didactic drama, English categories.
'More perceptive and convincing than a great deal that has ever been written on the subject 'close and attentive scholarship 'shrewd and ingenious observations.' A.L. Rowse, Daily Telegraph'Original and stimulating, Mr Vyvyan's thesis is important and serious: serious in the sense that his reading of the plays and his supporting reading into Shakespeare's climate of ideas is deep, connected and wide.' Times Literary Supplement'Two important insights bind together the central argument of this book ... Firstly, and most importantly, the author tells us that in Shakespeare "everything happens.
Shakespeare And The Rose Of Love
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Author : John Vyvyan
language : en
Publisher: Shepheard Walwyn (Publishers)
Release Date : 2020-05-06
Shakespeare And The Rose Of Love written by John Vyvyan and has been published by Shepheard Walwyn (Publishers) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Originally published by Chatto & Windus in 1960 as the second volume in a trilogy, this book has long been out of print. It offers a viewpoint seldom considered: an unusual and exceptionally clear insight into Shakespeare's philosophy. It does so with freshness, modesty and conviction. John Vyvyan continues his exploration into Shakespeare's philosophy, begun in The Shakespearean Ethic, which he believes to have been consistent, consciously held and profoundly Christian. However, appreciating the danger faced in writing at a time of major religious intolerance, for 'by the orthodox standards of his age, [such a] philosophy was heretical', Vyvyan explains how Shakespeare used the medieval allegory of love, The Romance of the Rose, to veil his ideas. The ultimate principle of his unorthodoxy, Vyvyan points out, was not original. It was one that had 'been getting the mystics into trouble repeatedly since the early Middle Ages. Shakespeare's view, that love leads to the recognition of unity, in essence is a poet's presentation of the doctrine of divine immanence. This is something the mystics are continually reasserting'. In The Romance of the Rose, the heroine symbolises the highest form of Love, not just romance, but also the qualities of purity and constancy, as Vyvyan reveals by discussing at length Love's Labour's Lost, Two Gentlemen of Verona and Romeo and Juliet. He shows that, even in his earliest work, Shakespeare was moving towards the universal ideas of love, forgiveness and regeneration which found their fullest expression in The Tempest and A Winter's Tale. 'There is no other voice from the past', Vyvyan writes, 'to which we still listen so willingly; and this is not merely because he entertains us, even in the higher sense, but also because there is something in his outlook on life that is deeply satisfying.' Author Details: John Vyvyan, born in 1908 in Sussex, was educated mainly in Switzerland. His first profession was archaeology, and he worked with Sir Flinders Petrie in the Middle East. Illness, which dogged him all his life, ended this kind of arduous field work, and he retired from archaeology to become a Shakespearean scholar and to write. In recognition of his contribution to Shakespearean scholarship in his trilogy, The Shakespearean Ethic (1959), Shakespeare and the Rose of Love (1960) and Shakespeare and Platonic Beauty (1961), he was offered, but unable to take up, a visiting lectureship at the State University of New York. He died in Exmouth in 1975.
Shakespeare And Platonic Beauty
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Author : John Vyvyan
language : en
Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers
Release Date : 2013
Shakespeare And Platonic Beauty written by John Vyvyan and has been published by Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Literary Criticism categories.
Looking at some of the Shakespearean comedies, author John Vyvyan suggests they express a consistent, profoundly Christian philosophy of life based on the Platonic ideas of beauty and love. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and All's Well That Ends Well, the heroines bring to life the idea of love as the force that is awakened in the world by beauty which then leads the soul to perfection. Vyvyan believes that for Shakespeare, love was preeminent over human ideas of justice, that self-discovery was a supreme human experience, and that breaking faith with the ideal--as Agamemnon, Cressida, and Hector all do in Troilus and Cressida --sowed the seeds of tragedy. The author's recognition of Shakespeare's use of allegory enables him to make sense of certain developments in these plays that seem weak or absurd from the psychological standpoint. He does not suggest that Shakespeare's philosophy is the most important thing about his plays; it is simply one thing about them that ought to be known. The recognition of this philosophy enhances enjoyment of the plays, giving them a new dimension and richness. This edition contains a list of the author's Shakespearean references and an enhanced index.
The Shakespeare Ethic
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Author : John Vyvyan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
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Shakespeare S Tragic Perspective
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Author : Larry S. Champion
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2012-04
Shakespeare S Tragic Perspective written by Larry S. Champion and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
This work directs attention to the various structural devices by which Shakespeare creates and sustains anticipation in his audience whil simultaneously provoking them to participate in the tragic protagonist's anguish.
Shakespeare S Moral Compass
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Author : Neema Parvini
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-13
Shakespeare S Moral Compass written by Neema Parvini 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 2018-08-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Examines the aesthetics, concepts and politics of chaotic and obscured moving images.
Hamlet In Purgatory
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Author : Stephen Greenblatt
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-20
Hamlet In Purgatory written by Stephen Greenblatt 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 2013-10-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Setting out to explain his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, Stephen Greenblatt provides an account of the rise and fall of purgatory as both a belief and a lucrative institution - as well as a new reading of the power of Hamlet.
Shakespeare And The Ambiguity Of Love S Triumph
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Author : Charles R. Lyons
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-12-04
Shakespeare And The Ambiguity Of Love S Triumph written by Charles R. Lyons and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.