Shakespeare's humanism / Robin Headlam Wells.

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Wells, Robin Headlam

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (x, 278 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0511137001
9780511137006
0511134290
9780511134296
0511134819
9780511134814
9780511483622
0511483627

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shakespeare's humanism.DDC classification:

822.33 22

LOC classification:

PR3001 .W46 2005eb

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Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; chapter 1 Shakespeare and English humanism; the proper study of mankind; the laws of human nature; challenges to the humanist view of man; the barbarian at the gate; the enemy within; shakespeare's humanism; the decline of natural law theory; chapter 2 Gender; the politics of 'twelfth night'; gender instability; constructing gender; some like it hot; chapter 3 Value pluralism; shylock the puritan; thrift; condundrums; value pluralism; chapter 4 Social justice; anatomising the 'police-universe'

Summary: Shakespeare's Humanism challenges the central, defining principle of postmodern Shakespeare criticism by arguing that the idea of a universal human nature was as important to Shakespeare as it was to every other Renaissance writer.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-270) and index.

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Shakespeare's Humanism challenges the central, defining principle of postmodern Shakespeare criticism by arguing that the idea of a universal human nature was as important to Shakespeare as it was to every other Renaissance writer.

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