Reading Shakespeare through Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781032242941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 190 str.

Peter Kishore Saval

Opis

Reading Shakespeare through Philosophy advocates that the beauty of Shakespearean drama is inseparable from its philosophical power. Shakespeare’s plays make demands on us even beyond our linguistic attention and historical empathy: they require thinking, and the concepts of philosophy can provide us with tools to aid us in that thin

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Fate and Character in Julius Caesar  3. A Philosophy of History in Love’s Labor’s Lost  4. Primordial Debt, Communism, and The Merchant of Venice  5. Sympathy in Timon of Athens  6. The Being of the Future in Twelfth Night

O autorze

Peter Kishore Saval is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University, US