Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Shakespeare and Classical Ethics ........................35 Fame, eternity, and Shakespeare`s Romans ..................37 Shakespeare and the ethics of Laughter ..............56 Aristotelian shame and christian mortification in Love`s Labour`s Lost ................76 Shakespeare`s Virgil: Empathy and the Tempest ................98 2. Shakespeare and christian ethics .................121 Shakespeare`s Prayers ...................123 The morality of milk : Shakespeare and the ethis of Nursing ................139 Hamlet the rought-hewer: Moral agency and the consolations of Reformation thought ..............159 wrying but a little ?: Marriage, punishment, and Forgiveness in Cymbeline ...............186 3. Shakespeare and the Ethical Thinking of Montaigne .....................211 Hidethy selfe: MOntaigne, hamlet, and epicurean ethics........................213 Conscience and the God-surrogate in montaigne and measure for measure ............237 Shakespeare, montaigne, and classical Reason .......................261 Madness, proverbial wisdom, and philosophy in king lear ..................284