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Shakespeare's Virtuous Theatre - (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture) by Kent Lehnhof & Julia Reinhard Lupton & Carolyn Sale
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Highlights
- 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.
- Author(s): Kent Lehnhof & Julia Reinhard Lupton & Carolyn Sale
- 344 Pages
- Literary Criticism, European
- Series Name: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture
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Presents Shakespeare's theatre as a powerful forum for shaping our capacity for virtue
Book Synopsis
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.
Review Quotes
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