Descrizione

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed binding, otherwise very good and clean. / Leicht beriebener Einband, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - CONTENTS: Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction (WILLIAM POOLE AND RICHARD SCHOLAR) -- Part I. Approaches -- 1. Why Shakespeare is not Michelangelo (COLIN BURROW) -- 2. The Opinion of Pythagoras (GABRIEL JOSIPOVICI) -- 3. Shakespeare Philosophus (CHARLES MARTINDALE) -- Part II. Investigations -- 4. False Trials and the Impulse to Try in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (SUBHA MUKHERJI) -- 5. Two Concepts of Reality in Antony and Cleopatra (N. K. SUGIMURA) -- 6. Dreaming, Looking, and Seeing: Shakespeare and a Myth of Resurrection (STEPHEN MEDCALF) -- Part III. Afterwords -- 7. When Shakespeare Met Montaigne (TERENCE CAVE) -- 8. The LastWord (A. D. NUTTALL) -- Bibliography -- Index. - Shakespeare�s works do not embody any doctrine or set of beliefs, as his critics have long been tempted to suggest, but they do stage encounters with certain kinds of thinking � ethical, political, epistemological, even metaphysical � that still concern us nowadays. They can be shown to draw on ancient philosophies � Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism � either directly or through medieval and continental Renaissance thought. Or their scenarios can be likened to those of other kinds of intellectual argument, such as legal or theological discourse. The essays collected in this volume, which is dedicated to A. D. Nuttall, demonstrate the value of �thinking with� Shakespeare, either as embodied in Shakespeare�s own creative programme or in our use of philosophical paradigms as an approach to his works. ISBN 9781904350842