Shakespeare and the Ethics of War / / ed. by Patrick Gray.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Currell, David,; Dailey, Alice,; Derrin, Daniel,; Gray, Patrick,; Quabeck, Franziska,; Soncini, Sara,; Tronch, Jesús,; Wong, Jane Yeang Chui,
• HerausgeberIn: Gray, Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Shakespeare & ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (170 p.)

How does Shakespeare represent war? This volume reviews scholarship to date on the question and introduces new perspectives, looking at contemporary conflict through the lens of the past. Through his haunting depiction of historical bloodshed, including the Trojan War, the fall of the Roman Republic, and the Wars of the Roses, Shakespeare illuminates more recent political violence, ranging from the British occupation of Ireland to the Spanish Civil War, the Balkans War, and the past several decades of U. S. military engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Can a war be just? What is the relation between the ruler and the ruled? What motivates ethnic violence? Shakespeare’s plays serve as the frame for careful explorations of perennial problems of human co-existence: the politics of honor, the ethics of diplomacy, the responsibility of non-combatants, and the tension between idealism and Realpolitik.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Shakespeare and the Ethics of War: Honour at the Stake -- Chapter 1 Shakespeare in Sarajevo: Theatrical and Cinematic Encounters with the Balkans War -- Chapter 2 John of Lancaster’s Negotiation with the Rebels in 2 Henry IV: Fifteenth-Century Northern England as Sixteenth-Century Ireland -- Chapter 3 Shakespeare’s Unjust Wars -- Chapter 4 Sine Dolore: Relative Painlessness in Shakespeare’s Laughter at War -- Chapter 5 The Better Part of Stolen Valour: Counterfeits, Comedy and the Supreme Court -- Chatper 6 Hamletism in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–39 -- Chapter 7 Where Character Is King: Gregory Doran’s Henriad -- Index