Souls with Longing (eBook, ePUB)

Representations of Honor and Love in Shakespeare
Redaktion: Dobski, Bernard J.; Gish, Dustin A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The works of William Shakespeare vividly represent for our admiration and study a pageant of souls with longing in whose wake we ceaselessly follow. Through some of his most memorable characters, Shakespeare illuminates the nature and character-as well as consequences-of our distinctively human passions and ambition, in particular our desire for and pursuit of both honor and love. The contributors to this collaborative volume (scholars in English Literature, Political Philosophy, and the Humanities) argue that Shakespeare has much to teach us about our longing for honor and love in particular, and thus about who we are, what we desire, and why. Through sustained reflection on the Shakespearean portraits of honor and love, which are the focus of the chapters in Souls With Longing, we become more keenly aware of our own humanity and come to know ourselves more profoundly. As the abiding popularity of his works aptly demonstrates, Shakespeare's unforgettable portraits of souls with longing-his representations of honor and love-continue to exert undeniable sway over our political, moral, and romantic imaginations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739165430
• Artikelnr.: 38221754

Autorenporträt

Bernard J. Dobski is associate professor and chair of political science at Assumption College. Dustin A. Gish is visiting assistant professor in the Political Science Department at the College of The Holy Cross.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Prologue Shakespeare's Souls with Longing Chapters Chapter
1. Shakespeare's Understandings of Honor: Morally Absolute, Politically
Relative Chapter 2. Love, Honor, and the Dynamics of Shakespearean Drama
Chapter 3. The Spectrum of Love: Nature and Convention in As You Like It
Chapter 4. Pagan Statesmanship and Christian Translation: Governing Love in
A Midsummer Night's Dream Chapter 5. Honor and Eros: Private Goods and
Public Neglect in Shakespeare's Troy Chapter 6. Friendship and Love of
Honor: The Education of Henry V Chapter 7. Love, Sex, and Shakespeare's
Intention in Romeo and Juliet Chapter 8. Macbeth's Strange Infirmity:
Shakespeare's Portrait of A Demonic Tyranny Chapter 9. Beyond Love and
Honor: Eros and Will to Power in Richard III Chapter 10. Taming The
Tempest: Prospero's Love of Wisdom and the Turn from Tyranny Chapter 11. A
Motley to the View: Staging Tragic Honor Epilogue Chapter 12. The Phoenix
and Turtle and the Mysteries of Love: Who Wants What, Why, and to What
Effect? Chapter 13. Love's Book of Honor and Shame: Shakespeare's Sonnets
and Lyric Flourishing Appendices Chapter A. Shakespeare's Plays: First
Folio Edition (London, 1623) Chapter B. Shakespeare's Works: Arranged
According to Composition Date Chapter C. Shakespeare's Plays: Arranged
According to Political Order Chapter D. Shakespeare's Plays: Arranged
According to Dramatic Setting and Date