Shakespearean Issues : : Agency, Skepticism, and Other Puzzles / / Richard Strier.
In Shakespearean Issues, Richard Strier has written a set of linked essays bound by a learned view of how to think about Shakespeare’s plays and also how to write literary criticism on them. The essays vary in their foci—from dealing with passages and key lines to dealing with whole plays, and to de...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. The Leading Thought
- PART I Individuals
- Chapter 1 Excuses, Bepissing, and Non-Being: Shakespearean Puzzles About Agency
- Chapter 2 Happy Hamlet
- Chapter 3 Resisting Complicity Ethical Judgment and King Lear
- PART II Systems
- Chapter 4 Shakespeare and Legal Systems The Better the Worse (but Not Vice Versa)
- Chapter 5 King Lear and Human Needs
- Chapter 6 The Tempest (1) Power
- Chapter 7 The Tempest (2) Labor
- Chapter 8 The Tempest (3) Humanism
- PART III Beliefs
- Chapter 9 Shakespeare and Skepticism (1) Religion
- Chapter 10 Shakespeare and Skepticism (2) Epistemology
- Chapter 11 Mind, Nature, Heterodoxy, and Iconoclasm in The Winter’s Tale
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments