Shakespeare's Humanism - Headlam Wells, Robin
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Shakespeares Humanism analyses a number of key Shakespeare plays, as well as works by Shakespeares contemporaries, to offer a methodology for interpreting this literature, both on the page and in the theatre. Renaissance humanists believed that if you want to build a just society you must begin with the facts of human nature. Headlam Wells argues that the idea of a universal human nature was as important to Shakespeare as it was to every other Renaissance writer, and therefore challenges the central, defining principle of postmodern Shakespeare criticism.

Produktbeschreibung
Shakespeares Humanism analyses a number of key Shakespeare plays, as well as works by Shakespeares contemporaries, to offer a methodology for interpreting this literature, both on the page and in the theatre. Renaissance humanists believed that if you want to build a just society you must begin with the facts of human nature. Headlam Wells argues that the idea of a universal human nature was as important to Shakespeare as it was to every other Renaissance writer, and therefore challenges the central, defining principle of postmodern Shakespeare criticism.
Autorenporträt
Robin Headlam Wells is Professor of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Research in Renaissance Studies at Roehampton University, London. His books include Elizabethan Mythologies (Cambridge, 1994) and Shakespeare on Masculinity (Cambridge, 2000).