Re-humanising Shakespeare : literary humanism, wisdom and modernity
Although the idea that literature can enrich us as human beings has in recent years been derided, this ground-breaking book re-conceptualises humanism as a way of thinking about literature and literary value. The book is at the forefront of re-emerging debates in literary studies about aesthetic value
Print Book, English, ©2007
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, ©2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
215 pages ; 25 cm
9780748623181, 0748623183
86167668
Denaturing human nature
Questioning the human : Hamlet
Emptying the human : Othello
Ironising the human : The merchant of Venice
Historicising the human, humanising the historical : I Henry IV
How to live
Ethics : Macbeth
Only human : Coriolanus
Humility : Love's labour's lost
Love : As you like it
Hope : The winter's tale