Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor /

Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor / / Curtis Brown Watson.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Watson, Curtis Brown,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1960
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 2358
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Physical Description:1 online resource (490 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Renaissance Concept of Honor
  • Chapter 1. The Concept of Honor from Plato to the Renaissance
  • Chapter 2. Part 1. The Aristocratic Class Structure of the Renaissance
  • Chapter 3. Points of Conflict between Christianity and the Pagan-Humanist Ethics
  • Chapter 4. Honor as Public Esteem
  • Part II. Shakespeare's Use of the Renaissance Concept of Honor
  • Chapter 5. Shakespeare and the Aristocratic Class Structure of his Age
  • Chapter 6. Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor
  • Chapter 7. Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor (continued)
  • Chapter 8. Shakespeare's Ambivalence in Regard to Christian and Pagan-Humanist Values
  • Chapter 9. Shakespeare's Ambivalence in Regard to Christian and Pagan-Humanist Values (continued)
  • Chapter 10. Honor as Public Esteem
  • Chapter 11. Honor as Public Esteem (continued)
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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