Gray, Patrick

Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics - New York Cambridge University Press 2017 - 309p

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

9781107419810 1990


Ethics
Literature
Shakespeare, William
Renaissance

U31 / G791