Shakespeare the Renaissance Humanist

Shakespeare the Renaissance Humanist
Title Shakespeare the Renaissance Humanist PDF eBook
Author Anthony Raspa
Publisher Springer
Pages 198
Release 2016-03-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 113758016X

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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

Shakespeare the Renaissance Humanist
Title Shakespeare the Renaissance Humanist PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages
Release 2016
Genre Ethics in literature
ISBN 9781137580153

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"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 Folly

Shakespeare's Folly
Title Shakespeare's Folly PDF eBook
Author Sam Hall
Publisher Routledge
Pages 215
Release 2016-06-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317223608

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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's Humanism

Shakespeare's Humanism
Title Shakespeare's Humanism PDF eBook
Author Robin Headlam Wells
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 290
Release 2005-12-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1139447475

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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

Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor
Title Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor PDF eBook
Author Curtis Brown Watson
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 490
Release 2015-12-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1400878950

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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.

The Philosophy of Humanism

The Philosophy of Humanism
Title The Philosophy of Humanism PDF eBook
Author Corliss 1902-1995 Lamont
Publisher Hassell Street Press
Pages 264
Release 2021-09-09
Genre
ISBN 9781014317315

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Re-Humanising Shakespeare

Re-Humanising Shakespeare
Title Re-Humanising Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author Andrew Mousley
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 190
Release 2015-03-03
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0748691243

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Revised throughout, the book includes: a new introduction which focuses attention on what is specific to literature's treatment of the human (as epitomised by Shakespeare); a section drawing on new work on literary genres as different forms of engagement