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001 2015026314
003 DLC
005 20151022090645.0
008 151019s2016 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015026314
020 $a9781137581112 (hardback)
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050 00 $aPR3007$b.R37 2016
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100 1 $aRaspa, Anthony.
245 10 $aShakespeare the renaissance humanist :$bmoral philosophy and his plays /$cAnthony Raspa.
263 $a1601
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Shakespeare the Renaissance Humanist is a study of the moral philosophy that underlay the 'street' humanism in the mind of Shakespeare's spectator when he went to see Hamlet or King Lear at the Globe. The work examines the currents of thought at the basis of this humanism to show how it functioned as a sort of everyday philosophy in the spectator's life and in the lives of Shakespeare's characters. Ideas inherited from the Ancient pagans and the medieval period were commingled daily as a matter of fact. The faculty of the reason in each person was a source of spiritual experience and speculation that were lived easily at one and the same time. As we see in the person of Hamlet, there was no contradiction between spiritual thought and speculation about the outside world. Pagan attitudes to immortality in the metaphysics of this humanism conjoined without conflict with Christian beliefs about the ultimate ends of life, and these attitudes and beliefs are found argued out in Titus Andronicus. The ideal of wisdom based on the tenets of this metaphysics was much spoken about in moral philosophy. In Shakespeare's day the ideal was referred to repeatedly in terms of the dictum "Know Thyself" that was carved over the entrance to the temple of Apollo in Ancient times, and the actions of Lear and his courtier Gloucester are spoken of from the beginning of their tragedy to is end in terms of their apprenticeship in wisdom. Through the humanism that lay behind it, moral philosophy found its expression freely in all aspects of Shakespeare's theatre"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Shakespeare the Renaissance Humanist is a study of the moral philosophy that underlay the"street" humanism in the mind of Shakespeare's spectator when he went to see Hamlet or King Lear at the Globe. The work examines how his plays reflected the moral philosophy that his spectators were living in their daily lives"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- 1. Shakespeare, the Critics, and Humanism 2. Metaphysics as the Way Things Are: King John and Hamlet 3. The Wisdom of King Lear 4. Macbeth's Imagination as Fatal Flaw 5. Beauty and Misfortune in Romeo and Juliet 6. Of Animals and Men: The Tempest.
600 10 $aShakespeare, William,$d1564-1616$xEthics.
650 0 $aHumanism in literature.
650 0 $aEthics in literature.
650 0 $aLiterature and morals$xHistory$y16th century.
650 0 $aLiterature and morals$xHistory$y17th century.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Drama.$2bisacsh