Shakespeare's Intellectual Background
Shakespeare's Intellectual Background
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Bind: Paperback
Year: 2015
Pages: 326
Size: 153 x 229 mm
Publisher: Viva Books Originals
Sales Territory: Worldwide
Description:
An important collection of insightful articles, Shakespeare's Intellectual Background shows how, contrary to Ben Jonson's belief that Shakespeare knew “small Latine and less Greeke”, the Bard of Stratford embodied in his work the entire wealth of wisdom drawn from the Greek, Roman and Medieval philosophic sources. As has been repeatedly emphasized by numerous critics, from olden times to the present, Shakespeare belongs not to the Elizabethan age alone but to all ages. Bringing together international scholarship on Shakespeare from England, America, Canada, and Australia, the editor has included in this volume a wide variety of contemporary critical approaches to the subject.
The papers in the later part of the present volume are addressed to aspects of Shakespeare's “modernity” and “postmodernity”, showing that the Bard's relevance remains as pertinent to our age as it has been to previous ages. Eminent Shakespeare scholars like Llyod Davis, John W. Mahon, R.W. Desai, Yoshiko Kawachi and Peter Holbrook, show how the world's greatest dramatist interpreted and deployed his reading of various other forms of intellectual acquisition in the large body of his plays. For every library and individual interested in Shakespeare, this book is an invaluable addition.
Salient Features:
• Offers fresh perspectives on Shakespeare's plays, highly useful for teachers and research students.
• Uses contemporary critical theory to interpret Shakespeare's plays in relation to their governing ideas.
• Brings out the complexity of thought and the density of texture that inform the structuring of Shakespeare's plays.
• Offers a wide range of philosophic insights into Shakespeare.
Target Audience:
All libraries of colleges and universities where English and in particular Shakespeare is taught.
This volume will be particularly useful to the students/ scholars of B.A, M.A, M.Phil and Ph.D. programmes relating to the plays of Shakespeare.
Contents:
Introduction • “To thine own self be true”: Identity and Desire from Plato to Hamlet • Hamlet and the Stoic Sage • Echoes of Heraclitus and Aurelius in Shakespeare's Plays • Epicureanism in the Plays of Shakespeare • The “Three-Nooked World” of Antony and Cleopatra: Rome, Egypt, and Cydnus • Seneca, Nero, Claudius I, Democritus, Christ, St. Paul, and Luther in Hamlet • “A craftier Tereus, cousin, hast thou met”: Shakespeare's Metamorphosis of Ovid in Titus Andronicus • “S”ei piace ei lice”: If it's pleasant it's possible: Tasso's Pleasure and Shakespeare's Probable Borrowings • Shakespeare and Self-creation • “Let every man be master of his time”: Shakespeare and the Renaissance • Shakespeare's Intellectual Background: Re-evaluating the Medical Legacy • Some Heretical Views on Shakespeare's Political Ideas • Shakespeare, Art and Humanism • Macbeth's Time in the Swelling Act of the Imperial Theme • Hamlet: An Early Existential Outsider” • Hamlet's Search for Philosophic Integration: A Twentieth-Century View • Shakespeare's Intellectual Background: A Postmodern
Perspective
About the Editor:
Professor Bhim S. Dahiya has a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati (U.S.A.) and has taught English Literature for over forty years. He has several critical books on literature, education and politics, to his credit, including A New History of English Literature, The Hero in Hemingway, The University Autonomy in India, Dr. Sarup Singh and His Times, etc. Professor Dahiya is also the editor of Poet-Critics on Shakespeare and Postmodern Essays on Love, Sex, and Marriage in Shakespeare. Among his various contributions to the cause of English studies is the biannual Journal of Drama Studies, an international journal of research on world drama in English (including translation), which attracts contributions from reputed drama critics the world over.
Contributors: Geoffrey Aggeler • Paromita Chakravarti • Bhim S. Dahiya • Tilottama C. Daswani • Llyod Davis • R. W. Desai • Swati Ganguli • A. G. George • Christine Gomez • Peter Holbrook • Yoshiko Kawachi • John W. Mahon • Vernon Garth Miles • S.L. Paul • Anand Prakash • Rahul Sapra • Rita Severi
