Shakespeare's Ideas: More Things in Heaven and Earth

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Wiley, Aug 18, 2008 - History - 234 pages
An in-depth exploration, through his plays and poems, of the philosophy of Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a "great mind".
  • Written by a leading Shakespearean scholar
  • Discusses an array of topics, including sex and gender, politics and political theory, writing and acting, religious controversy and issues of faith, skepticism and misanthropy, and closure
  • Explores Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a "great mind"

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Contents

Lust in Action
15
What is Honour?
42
Hold the Mirror Up to Nature
74
Copyright

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About the author (2008)

David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor the Humanities at the University of Chicago. His numerous publications include The Bantam Shakespeare, in 29 paperback volumes (1988, new edition forthcoming), and The Complete Works of Shakespeare (fifth edition, 2003), as well as the Oxford Shakespeare edition of Henry IV Part I (1987), the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition of Antony and Cleopatra (second edition, 2005), and the Arden Shakespeare edition of Troilus and Cressida (1998). He is the senior editor of the Revels Student Editions, and is a senior editor of the Revels Plays and of the forthcoming Cambridge edition of the works of Ben Jonson. He is also general editor of English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology (2002), and the author of Shakespeare: The Seven Ages of Human Experience (second edition, Blackwell, 2005).

Bibliographic information

TitleShakespeare's Ideas: More Things in Heaven and Earth
Volume 7 of Blackwell Great Minds, ISSN 2691-9974
AuthorDavid Bevington
PublisherWiley, 2008
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedJun 28, 2010
ISBN1405167963, 9781405167963
Length234 pages
Subjects › 

History / General
History / Historiography
Literary Criticism / Shakespeare
  
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