The Shakespeare Authorship Question And Philosophy

Author : William Leahy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441148361
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and His Authors written by William Leahy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shakespeare Authorship question - the question of who wrote Shakespeare's plays and who the man we know as Shakespeare was - is a subject which fascinates millions of people the world over and can be seen as a major cultural phenomenon. However, much discussion of the question exists on the very margins of academia, deemed by most Shakespearean academics as unimportant or, indeed, of interest only to conspiracy theorists. Yet, many academics find the Authorship question interesting and worthy of analysis in theoretical and philosophical terms. This collection brings together leading literary and cultural critics to explore the Authorship question as a social, cultural and even theological phenomenon and consider it in all its rich diversity and significance.

Author : Michael Quinn Dudley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781527539358
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy written by Michael Quinn Dudley and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Quinn Dudley
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527539369
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy written by Michael Quinn Dudley and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly 200 years, people have questioned the identity of Shakespeare; however, this debate is often dismissed by most scholars as “just a conspiracy theory,” with the life of the poet-playwright being “beyond doubt.” And yet, the documented facts related to the man from Stratford are meagre—where they exist at all—forcing biographers to rely heavily on their own imaginations. What does it mean to say that the traditional stance on Shakespeare’s authorship is a belief as opposed to a search for knowledge? What are the ethical implications of declaring that some history is “beyond doubt,” and that no debate about it may be permitted? What can theories of knowledge, truth and rhetoric tell us about how knowledge of Shakespeare has been constructed and justified? To the extent that this belief has consequences for society, can it then be said to be an ethical one? Finally, what difference does it actually make—from a pragmatic perspective—who the Author was? Highly original in its scope, The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy sets out the debate’s many profound philosophical dimensions concerning knowledge, historiography, truth and academic freedom—implications that transcend the debate itself.

Author : Peter Andrew Sturrock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984261413
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AKA Shakespeare written by Peter Andrew Sturrock and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Edmondson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107017599
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Beyond Doubt written by Paul Edmondson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? This authoritative collection of essays brings fresh perspectives to bear on an intriguing cultural phenomenon.

Author : Delia Salter Bacon
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded written by Delia Salter Bacon and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1857 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colin McGinn
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061751650
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Philosophy written by Colin McGinn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’s plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here, into six of Shakespeare’s greatest plays–A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest. In his brilliant commentary, McGinn explores Shakespeare’s philosophy of life and illustrates how he was influenced, for example, by the essays of Montaigne that were translated into English while Shakespeare was writing. In addition to chapters on the great plays, there are also essays on Shakespeare and gender and his plays from the aspects of psychology, ethics, and tragedy. As McGinn says about Shakespeare, “There is not a sentimental bone in his body. He has the curiosity of a scientist, the judgment of a philosopher, and the soul of a poet.” McGinn relates the ideas in the plays to the later philosophers such as David Hume and the modern commentaries of critics such as Harold Bloom. The book is an exhilarating reading experience, especially for students who are discovering the greatest writer in English.

Author : Delia Salter Bacon
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded written by Delia Salter Bacon and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded" by Delia Salter Bacon. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Diana Price
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography written by Diana Price and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It successfully argues that "William Shakespeare" was the pen name of an aristocrat, and that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon was a shrewd entrepreneur, not a dramatist."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Christian A. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000519031
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare’s Influence on Karl Marx written by Christian A. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a close reading of instances of Shakespearean quotations, allusions, imagery and rhetoric found in Karl Marx’s collected works and letters, which provides evidence that Shakespeare’s writings exerted a formative influence on Marx and the development of his work. Through a methodology of intertextual and interlingual close-reading, this study provides evidence of the extent to which Shakespeare influenced Marx and to which Marxism has Shakespearean roots. As a child, Marx was home-schooled in Ludwig von Westphalen’s little academy, as it were, which was Shakespeare- and literary-focused. The group included von Westphalen’s daughter, who later became Marx’s wife, Jenny. The influence of Shakespeare in Marx’s writings shows up as early as his school essays and love letters. He modelled his early journalism partly on ideas and rhetoric found in Shakespeare’s plays. Each turn in the development of Marx’s thought—from Romantic to Left Hegelian and then to Communist—is achieved in part through his use of literature, especially Shakespeare. Marx’s mature texts on history, politics and economics—including the famous first volume of Das Kapital—are laden with Shakespearean allusions and quotations. Marx's engagement with Shakespeare resulted in the development of a framework of characters and imagery he used to stand for and anchor the different concepts in his political critique. Marx’s prose style uses a conceit in which politics are depicted as performative. Later, the Marx family—Marx, Jenny and their children—was central in the late-19th-century revival of Shakespeare on the London stage, and in the growth of academic Shakespeare scholarship. Through providing evidence for a formative role of Shakespeare in the development of Marxism, the present study suggests a formative role for literature in the history of ideas.