Shakespeare, the Reformation and the Interpreting Self / / Roberta Kwan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Kwan, Roberta,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy : ECSSP
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)

Reconceptualises Shakespeare’s representations of selfhood by drawing on a long history of the interpreting self Provides a groundbreaking contribution to the expanding field of study situated at the intersections of Shakespeare, religion and philosophy Illuminates Shakespeare’s indebtedness to Reformation hermeneutics, that is, the Reformers’ configuring of the interpreting self Offers a distinctive vantage point on our sense that Shakespeare’s plays speak to present-day human experience by employing a critical framework that shows the influence of the Reformers’ hermeneutics on modern philosophical hermeneutics Presents innovative readings of Shakespeare’s ‘problem plays’ – Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure and All’s Well That Ends Well – and their viewpoints on human subjectivity We share with Shakespeare, it seems, the assumption that to be human is to know through interpretation. This innovative study examines Shakespeare’s compelling dramatisations of the interpreting self through the lens of a hermeneutical tradition that spans culture-shaping early modern religious beliefs about human knowing and pivotal philosophical ideas of our age. What is it to be an interpreting self? Shakespeare, the Reformation and the Interpreting Self offers fresh perspectives on critical questions about the self’s finitude, agency, motivations, self-knowledge and ethical relation to others; questions that were of great relevance in Shakespeare’s England and which continue to frame present-day dilemmas and debates about human experience and human being.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE -- TEXTUAL NOTE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 A HERMENEUTIC REVOLUTION -- CHAPTER 2 HAMLET, THE FALL AND HERMENEUTICAL TRAGEDY -- CHAPTER 3 NOT KNOWING THYSELF IN TROILUS AND CRESSIDA -- CHAPTER 4 SEEING MERCY, STAGING MERCY IN MEASURE FOR MEASURE -- CHAPTER 5 ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL? KNOWING IN PART -- EPILOGUE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index