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Author |
: Kevin Curran |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2018-02-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1474431615 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781474431613 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare and Judgment by : Kevin Curran
Ranging widely across law, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy, this book offers the first account of the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama Shakespeare and Judgmentgathers together an international group of scholars to address for the first time the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama. Contributors approach the topic from a variety of cultural and theoretical perspectives, covering plays from across Shakespeare's career and from each of the genres in which he wrote. Anchoring the volume are two critical contentions: first, that attending to Shakespeare's treatment of judgment leads to fresh insights about the imaginative relationship between law, theater, and aesthetics in early modern England; and second, that it offers new ways of putting the plays' historical and philosophical contexts into conversation. Taken together, the essays in Shakespeare and Judgmentoffer a genuinely new account of the historical and intellectual coordinates of Shakespeare's plays. Building on current work in legal studies, religious studies, theater history, and critical theory, the volume will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working on Shakespeare and early modern drama. Key Features Provides the first account of the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama Offers a fresh perspective on the imaginative relationship between law, religion, and aesthetics in Shakespeare's plays Models new ways of putting the plays' historical and philosophical contexts into conversation.
Author |
: Bradin Cormack |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 2016-07-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226378565 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022637856X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare and the Law by : Bradin Cormack
"William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life; trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an extraordinary team of literary and legal scholars, philosophers, and even sitting judges, Shakespeare and the Law demonstrates that Shakespeare's thinking about legal concepts and legal practice points to a deep and sometimes vexed engagement with the law's technical workings, its underlying premises, and its social effects. Shakespeare and the Law opens with three essays that provide useful frameworks for approaching the topic, offering perspectives on law and literature that emphasize both the continuities and the contrasts between the two fields. In its second section, the book considers Shakespeare's awareness of common-law thinking and practice through examinations of Measure for Measure and Othello. Building and expanding on this question, the third part inquires into Shakespeare's general attitudes toward legal systems. A judge and former solicitor general rule on Shylock's demand for enforcement of his odd contract; and two essays by literary scholars take contrasting views on whether Shakespeare could imagine a functioning legal system. The fourth section looks at how law enters into conversation with issues of politics and community, both in the plays and in our own world. The volume concludes with a freewheeling colloquy among Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Judge Richard A. Posner, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Richard Strier that covers everything from the ghost in Hamlet to the nature of judicial discretion"--Jacket.
Author |
: Kevin Curran |
Publisher |
: Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2017-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780810135185 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0810135183 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies by : Kevin Curran
Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies offers the first sustained examination of the relationship between law and selfhood in Shakespeare’s work. Taking five plays and the sonnets as case studies, Kevin Curran argues that law provided Shakespeare with the conceptual resources to imagine selfhood in social and distributed terms, as a product of interpersonal exchange or as a gathering of various material forces. In the course of these discussions, Curran reveals Shakespeare’s distinctly communitarian vision of personal and political experience, the way he regarded living, thinking, and acting in the world as materially and socially embedded practices. At the center of the book is Shakespeare’s fascination with questions that are fundamental to both law and philosophy: What are the sources of agency? What counts as a person? For whom am I responsible, and how far does that responsibility extend? What is truly mine? Curran guides readers through Shakespeare’s responses to these questions, paying careful attention to both historical and intellectual contexts. The result is a book that advances a new theory of Shakespeare’s imaginative relationship to law and an original account of law’s role in the ethical work of his plays and sonnets. Readers interested in Shakespeare, theater and philosophy, law, and the history of ideas will find Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies to be an essential resource.
Author |
: Robert G. Hunter |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2011-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820338545 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820338540 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare and the Mystery of God's Judgments by : Robert G. Hunter
Robert G. Hunter maintains that the impact of the Protestant Reformation on the Elizabethan mind was in great part responsible for the emergence of the outstanding tragedies of the age. Luther and Calvin caused men to ask how God can be just if man is not free, and Shakespeare's greatest tragedies confront the vexing problems posed by these altered conceptions of man's freedom of will and God's providential control of natural circumstance. Shakespeare's audiences were not single-minded. He wrote for semi-Pelagians, Augustinians, Calvinists, and men and women who did not know what to think. Confl icting certainties, doubts, and uncertainties were his raw material, both within his mind and the minds of the audience. Hunter shows how Shakespeare uses the major attitudes toward God's judgment in creating Richard III, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear. He notes that Shakespeare's different viewpoints are the heart of the tragedies themselves. Even after Shakespeare's imaginative considerations of the mysteries, the tragedies seem to consistently provide questions rather than answers, and what they inspire in their beholders is more likely to be doubt than faith.
Author |
: Kevin Curran |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2016-10-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474413169 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474413161 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare and Judgment by : Kevin Curran
Ranging widely across law, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy, this book offers the first account of the place of judgment in Shakespearean dramaShakespeare and Judgment gathers together an international group of scholars to address for the first time the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama. Contributors approach the topic from a variety of cultural and theoretical perspectives, covering plays from across Shakespeare's career and from each of the genres in which he wrote. Anchoring the volume are two critical contentions: first, that attending to Shakespeare's treatment of judgment leads to fresh insights about the imaginative relationship between law, theater, and aesthetics in early modern England; and second, that it offers new ways of putting the plays' historical and philosophical contexts into conversation. Taken together, the essays in Shakespeare and Judgment offer a genuinely new account of the historical and intellectual coordinates of Shakespeare's plays. Building on current work in legal studies, religious studies, theater history, and critical theory, the volume will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working on Shakespeare and early modern drama. Key FeaturesProvides the first account of the place of judgment in Shakespearean dramaOffers a fresh perspective on the imaginative relationship between law, religion, and aesthetics in Shakespeare's playsModels new ways of putting the plays' historical and philosophical contexts into conversation.
Author |
: Robert Rentoul ReedJr. |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2021-10-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813186542 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813186544 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crime and God's Judgment in Shakespeare by : Robert Rentoul ReedJr.
Divine retribution, Robert Reed argues, is a principal driving force in Shakespeare's English history plays and three of his major tragedies. Reed finds evidence of the playwright's growing ingenuity and maturing skill in his treatment of the crime of political homicide, its impact on events, and God's judgment on the criminal. Reed's analysis focuses upon Tudor concepts that he shows were familiar to all Elizabethans—the biblical principle of inherited guilt, the doctrine that God is the fountainhead of retribution, with man merely His instrument, and the view that conscience serves a fundamentally divine function—and he urges us to look at Shakespeare within the context of his time, avoiding the too-frequent tendency of twentieth-century critics to force a modern world view on the plays. Heaven's power of vengeance provides an essential unifying theme to the plays of the two historical tetralogies, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Macbeth. By analyzing these plays in the light of values held by Shakespeare's contemporaries, Reed has made a substantial contribution toward clarifying our understanding of the plays and of Elizabethan England.
Author |
: Kenji Yoshino |
Publisher |
: Ecco |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0061769126 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780061769122 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Thousand Times More Fair by : Kenji Yoshino
Celebrated legal scholar Kenji Yoshino's first book, Covering, was acclaimed—from the New York Times Book Review to O, The Oprah Magazine to the American Lawyer—for its elegant prose, its good humor, and its brilliant insights into civil rights and discrimination law. Now, in A Thousand Times More Fair, Yoshino turns his attention to the question of what makes a fair and just society, and delves deep into a surprising source to answer it: Shakespeare's greatest plays. Through fresh and insightful readings of Measure for Measure, Titus Andronicus, Othello, and others, he addresses the fundamental questions we ask about our world today and elucidates some of the most troubling issues in contemporary life. Enormously creative, engaging, and provocative, A Thousand Times More Fair is an altogether original book about Shakespeare and the law, and an ideal starting point to explore the nature of a just society–and our own.
Author |
: Brian Vickers |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 412 |
Release |
: 2016-04-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674970335 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674970330 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis The One King Lear by : Brian Vickers
King Lear exists in two different texts: the Quarto (1608) and the Folio (1623). Because each supplies passages missing in the other, for over 200 years editors combined the two to form a single text, the basis for all modern productions. Then in the 1980s a group of influential scholars argued that the two texts represent different versions of King Lear, that Shakespeare revised his play in light of theatrical performance. The two-text theory has since hardened into orthodoxy. Now for the first time in a book-length argument, one of the world’s most eminent Shakespeare scholars challenges the two-text theory. At stake is the way Shakespeare’s greatest play is read and performed. Sir Brian Vickers demonstrates that the cuts in the Quarto were in fact carried out by the printer because he had underestimated the amount of paper he would need. Paper was an expensive commodity in the early modern period, and printers counted the number of lines or words in a manuscript before ordering their supply. As for the Folio, whereas the revisionists claim that Shakespeare cut the text in order to alter the balance between characters, Vickers sees no evidence of his agency. These cuts were likely made by the theater company to speed up the action. Vickers includes responses to the revisionist theory made by leading literary scholars, who show that the Folio cuts damage the play’s moral and emotional structure and are impracticable on the stage.
Author |
: Hillary Caroline Eklund |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1474477135 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781474477130 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare by : Hillary Caroline Eklund
Provides diverse perspectives on Shakespeare and early modern literature that engage innovation, collaboration, and forward-looking practices.
Author |
: George Koppelman |
Publisher |
: Axletree Books |
Total Pages |
: 407 |
Release |
: 2015-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780692500323 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0692500324 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare's Beehive by : George Koppelman
A study of manuscript annotations in a curious copy of John Baret's ALVEARIE, an Elizabethan dictionary published in 1580. This revised and expanded second edition presents new evidence and furthers the argument that the annotations were written by William Shakespeare. This ebook contains text in color, and images. We recommend reading it on a device that displays both.