Shakespeare and the Ethics of War /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (170 p.)
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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

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