Screen LibraryShakespeare and the idea of Western civilization /
"The author argues his viewpoint--that Shakespeare's drama achieves not a break with Western literary and cultural tradition that has preceded him but instead is its consummate expression; the author demonstrates the aesthetic and moral validity of Shakespearean drama as well as its genera...
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The Catholic University of America Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Washington, DC : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"The author argues his viewpoint--that Shakespeare's drama achieves not a break with Western literary and cultural tradition that has preceded him but instead is its consummate expression; the author demonstrates the aesthetic and moral validity of Shakespearean drama as well as its general validation of the principles of Western civilization"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 258 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780813235240 0813235243 |
| Index Number: | PR3000 |
| CLC: | J805.561 |
| Call Number: | J805.561/Y755 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Learning from Shakespeare, poet of Western civilization -- Shakespeare on love (and marriage) -- Juliet's nominalism and the failure of love -- The racial "other" in The merchant of Venice and Othello -- Shakespeare's history plays and the Erasmian Christian prince -- Freedom and tyranny in Julius Caesar and Hamlet -- "Light thickens" : freedom and tyranny in Macbeth -- Hope and despair in King Lear : the gospel and the crisis of natural law -- The tempest in the academic teapot. |