Shakespeare and the truth-teller : confronting the cynic ideal /
Highlighting the necessity of literary thinking to political philosophy, this book explores Shakespeare's responses to sixteenth-century debates over the revolutionary potential of Cynic critical activity.
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
[2019]
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| Serie: | Edinburgh critical studies in Shakespeare and philosophy.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvrs90zs |
Sommario:
- Introduction
- Part I: Our cynic legacy
- Cynicism and the courage of truth
- The realist turn: parrhêsia, character and the limits of didacticism
- Part II: Shakespeare's cynics
- Shakespeare's bitter fool: the politics and aesthetics of free speech
- Cynicism, melancholy and Hamlet's memento moriae
- Cash is king: Timon, Diogenes and the search for sovereign freedom
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index.