Shakespeare, the Reformation and the Interpreting Self
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2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-6195-5 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-6195-5 (ISBN)
We share with Shakespeare, it seems, the assumption that to be human is to be an interpreter of oneself, others and the world – seeking but not always arriving at understanding. Shakespeare, the Reformation and the Interpreting Self explores this perspective on human subjectivity. This study reads the complex, compelling representations of the self as an interpreter (and misinterpreter) of reality in Shakespeare’s ‘problem plays’ alongside an intellectual history that links the culture-shaping theological hermeneutics of the playwright’s day to the similarly influential philosophical hermeneutics of our times. What is it to be an interpreting self? This book’s critical approach brings to the fore questions about the self’s finitude, agency, motivations, self-knowledge and ethical relation to others, questions that were of great relevance in Shakespeare’s England and which continue to resonate in our present-day dilemmas and debates about human experience and human being.
Roberta Kwan is an Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Media, Communication, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature at Macquarie University, Sydney and an Honorary Associate in the Medieval and Early Modern Centre at The University of Sydney. Her research explores the intersections of early modern drama, theology and philosophy. She has published several scholarly articles in this field.
Acknowledgements
Textual Note
Series Editor’s Preface
Introduction
1. A Hermeneutic Revolution
2. Hamlet, the Fall and Hermeneutical Tragedy
3. Not knowing thyself in Troilus and Cressida
4. Seeing Mercy, Staging Mercy in Measure for Measure
5. All’s Well That Ends Well? Knowing in Part Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.01.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-6195-6 / 1474461956 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-6195-5 / 9781474461955 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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