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Shakespeare's Humanism
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Pages: 290
Authors: Robin Headlam Wells
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-12-08 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Renaissance humanists believed that if you want to build a just society you must begin with the facts of human nature. This book argues that the idea of a unive
Shakespeare's Humanism
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Robin Headlam Wells
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Arguing that belief in a universal human nature was as important to Shakespeare as to every other Renaissance writer, this book questions the central principle
Posthumanist Shakespeares
Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: S. Herbrechter
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-31 - Publisher: Springer

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Shakespeare scholars and cultural theorists critically investigate the relationship between early modern culture and contemporary political and technological ch
Shakespeare's Folly
Language: en
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Authors: Sam Hall
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-23 - Publisher: Routledge

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This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare’s drama. The discourse of folly’s wordplay,
Christian Humanism in Shakespeare
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Lee Oser
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-06 - Publisher: CUA Press

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Shakespeare, Lee Oser argues, is a Christian literary artist who criticizes and challenges Christians, but who does so on Christian grounds. Stressing Shakespea