Thinking with Shakespeare: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays

by William Poole

Overview

This book presents comparative and interdisciplinary essays that demonstrate the value of thinking with Shakespeare, either as embodied in Shakespeare's own creative programme or in our use of philosophical paradigms as an approach to his works.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367604608
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Series:	Legenda Main
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

William Poole

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements viii

List of Contributors ix

Introduction William Poole Richard Scholar 1

Part I Approaches

1 Why Shakespeare is not Michelangelo Colin Burrow 9

2 The Opinion of Pythagoras Gabriel Josipovici 23

3 Shakespeare Philosophus Charles Martindale 33

Part II Investigations

4 False Trials and the Impulse to Try in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries Subha Mukherji 53

5 Two Concepts of Reality in Antony and Cleopatra N. K. Sugimura 73

6 Dreaming, Looking, and Seeing: Shakespeare and a Myth of Resurrection Stephen Medcalf 93

Part III Afterwords

7 When Shakespeare Met Montaigne Terence Cave 115

8 The Last Word A. D. Nuttall 121

Bibliography 129

Index 137