Informed by work in both classical philosophy and performance studies, this book argues that Stoicism infused the theatrical culture of early modern England. Plays written during this period instruct audiences to cultivate their virtue, self-awareness, and creativity in keeping with Stoic practice.
Contributions by Tracey Sedinger, Julia Lupton, Jennifer R. Rust, Andrew Sisson, Joan Pong Linton, Joel M. Dodson, Colby Gordon, Hugh Grady, Lydia Heinrichs and Russ Leo
This book examines the relationship between art and politics in Shakespeare and the early modern era, with a focus on the relation between aesthetics and sensory experience.
Contributions by Sarah Beckwith, Kent Cartwright, Brian Cummings, Margreta de Grazia, Rachael Deagman, Tobias Doring, Helga Duncan, Angela Heetderks, Robert Hornback, Jeanne McCarthy, Jennifer R. Rust, E. Maggie Solberg and William West
Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare is a collection of essays that argue that Shakespeare’s plays present “secularization” not only as a historical narrative of progress but also as a hermeneutic process that unleashes complex and often problematic transactions between sacred and secular.
In Yeats's Shakespeare, the first full-length study of Yeats’s interest in Shakespeare, Rupin W. Desai explores how Shakespearean works influenced Yeats’s poetry and mythological drama....
The best conception of love, Marcus Nordlund contends, and hence the best framework for its literary analysis, must be a fusion of evolutionary, cultural, and historical explanation. ...
