Virtue's Own Feature: Shakespeare and the Virtue Ethics TraditionUniversity of Delaware Press, 1995 - 260 pages "Using an historical approach, Virtue's Own Feature explores nine of Shakespeare's most successful works as representations of the passions, virtues, and vices as they are complexly and extensively set out by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas." "The work first undertakes to describe the late Elizabethan poetic of Sir Philip Sidney, which is demonstrated to be Shakespeare's poetic as well. Second, this study explores Shakespeare's plays in relation to the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of moral philosophy, one important branch of a major sixteenth-century philosophical tradition."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... King Lear has suffered from interpretations with rationalistic assumptions and expectations . The increasing taste in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for theodicy produced a very different treatment of the question of divine ...
... King Lear has suffered from interpretations with rationalistic assumptions and expectations . The increasing taste in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for theodicy produced a very different treatment of the question of divine ...
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... King Lear , " in Shakespeare : King Lear , A Casebook , ed . Frank Kermode ( London : Macmillan , 1969 ) , 235–36 , 242– 44. Sisson , however , sees Lear's ending more positively in terms of a spiritual rebirth , a reading that would ...
... King Lear , " in Shakespeare : King Lear , A Casebook , ed . Frank Kermode ( London : Macmillan , 1969 ) , 235–36 , 242– 44. Sisson , however , sees Lear's ending more positively in terms of a spiritual rebirth , a reading that would ...
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... King Lear . " In Some Facets of King Lear : Essays in Prismatic Criticism , edited by Rosalie Colie and F. T. Flahiff . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 1974 . Collinson , Patrick . " England and International Calvinism . " In ...
... King Lear . " In Some Facets of King Lear : Essays in Prismatic Criticism , edited by Rosalie Colie and F. T. Flahiff . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 1974 . Collinson , Patrick . " England and International Calvinism . " In ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 15 |
Sidneys Apology and Shakespeares Poetic | 21 |
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