Shakespeare and Happiness

ISBN-13: 9780367742201 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 232 str.

Kathleen French

Opis

Shakespeare and Happiness is a study of attitudes to happiness in the early modern period and in Shakespeare’s plays.

Spis treści

Introduction;  Part I. Thinking About Happiness;  1. Happiness in the Early Modern Period;  2. Approaches to Shakespeare;  Part II. Happiness Gained: The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It and Twelfth Night;  3. Looking for Different Types of Happiness;  4. Looking for Happiness in a Fallen World;  5. Rewriting Eve;  Part III. Happiness Lost: Hamlet, Measure for Measure, Othello and The Winter’s Tale;  6. Trapped in a Fallen World;  7. Blaming Eve: Exercises in Power; 8. And After That Forgiveness?;  Conclusion;  Bibliography

O autorze

Kathleen French has a PhD from The University of Sydney. She is currently an Honorary Associate in the Department of English at The University of Sydney.