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  • Publisher:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Publication date:
    January 2027
    September 2023
    ISBN:
    9781474499064
    9781474499040
    9781474499057
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    Literature, Literary Texts, Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy
    Series:
    Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture
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    Literature, Literary Texts, Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy
    Series:
    Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture
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    This collection of essays explores how the Shakespearean drama enacts ancient virtues and conceptualises new ones in complex fictional scenarios that test virtues for their continuing value. Contributors approach the virtues as a source of imaginative, affective and intellectual nourishment and consider how Shakespeare's art increases our capacity for new pursuits of the good. Examining Shakespeare's virtuous theatre in tragic, comic and romance modes and from ethical, theatrical and political perspectives, this volume establishes virtue as a framework for a socially, environmentally and spiritually renewed literary criticism. Contributors balance historical depth and philosophical insight with the art of close reading as they contemplate the dynamic field of virtue - embodied, responsive, energetic and dynamic - as it ebbs and flows across time, among multiple wisdom traditions, and in the entangled lives and troubled circumstances of Shakespeare's characters.

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