This virtuosic collection of essays focuses on the virtues tending us towards co-operative and collective life. An absorbing, intelligent and original book, and an important addition to literary and intellectual history.
- Sarah Beckwith, Duke University,
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.
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Presents Shakespeare’s theatre as a powerful forum for shaping our capacity for virtue
Acknowledgements
Series Editors' Preface
Introduction – Kent Lehnhof, Julia Reinhard Lupton and Carolyn Sale
Part I: Ecologies of Virtue
1. Cordelia’s Fire – Carolyn Sale 2. Voice, Virtue, Veritas: On Truth and Vocal Feeling in King Lear – Katie Adkison 3. Reading Virtues: Shakespeare’s Animals – Karen Raber
Part II: Virtue’s Performances
4. Shakespeare and the Virtue in Complaining – Emily Shortslef 5. Masculine Virtù and Feminine Virtue in Much Ado About Nothing – Kristina Sutherland 6. The Virtue of Humour in King Lear – Kent Lehnhof 7. Vita Energetica: Love’s Labour’s Lost and Shakespeare’s Maculate Theatre – Ian Munro
Part III: Virtue in Transit
8. Cymbeline and the Renewal of Constancy – Jesse M. Lander 9. Cymbeline and the ‘Swan’s Nest’ of Britain: Insularity, Chastity and Innogen’s Greater Transnational Virtues – Michael Gadaleto10. Sufi Theoroticism, the Sophianic Feminine, and Desdemona’s Tragic Heroism – Unhae Park Langis
Part IV: Sustaining Virtue
11. Enduring the Eventual: A Virtuous Way of Reading Shakespeare – Thomas J. Moretti12. Sustaining Courage in the Humanities: The Example of Hamlet – Daniel Juan Gil13. On the Virtue of Grief – Michael Bristol
Afterword – Kevin Curran
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781474499057
Publisert
2025-05-01
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet