Shakespeare and Judgment

ISBN-13: 9781474431613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Kevin Curran

Opis

Shakespeare and Judgment' gathers together an international group of scholars to address for the first time the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama. Contributors approach the topic from a variety of cultural and theoretical perspectives, covering plays from across Shakespeare's career.

Spis treści

Introduction, Kevin Curran; Part I: Staging Judgment: Deliberation in the Plays; 1. Preventive Justice in Measure for Measure, Virginia Lee Strain; 2. Believing in Ghosts, in Part: Judgment and Indecision in Hamlet, Vivasvan Soni; 3. Shakespeare’s Law and Plowden’s Authority; Constance Jordan; Part II: Audience Judgment: Deliberation in the Theater; 4. “Gently to hear, kindly to judge”: Minds at Work in Henry V, Katherine B. Attié; 5. “Practis[ing] Judgment with the Disposition of Natures”: Measure for Measure, the “Discoursive” Common Law, and the “Open Court” of the Theater, Carolyn Sale; 6. The Laws of Measure for Measure; Paul Yachnin; 7. Prospero’s Plea: Judgment, Invention, and Political Form in The Tempest; Kevin Curran; Part III: The Ethics of Judgment; 8. Antinomian Shakespeare: English Drama and Confession across the Reformation Divide, John Parker; 9. Bracketed Judgment, “Un-humanizing,” and Conversion in The Merchant of Venice, Sanford Budick; 10. The Judgment of the Critics that Makes us Tremble: “Distributing Complicities” in Recent Criticism of King Lear; Richard Strier.