SHAKESPEARE AS POLITICAL THINKER
Edited by John E. Alvis and Thomas G. West
List Item No. 287
ISBN: 1-882926-50-1 (cloth)
426 pages (includes Index)
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The essays contained in this book proceed from the common conviction that Shakespeare's poetry conveys a wisdom about politics commensurate with his artistry. Such well-known thinkers as Allan Bloom, Harry Jaffa, and Robert B. Heilman discuss Shakespeare's understanding of politics, the idea of the best polity, the relationship between character and political life, and interpenetration of poetry, politics, religion, and philosophy.
What They're Saying...
"This anthology, an expanded edition of a 1981 work, is defiantly untrendy in its contributors' refusal to read back into the Shakespearean canon the political agendas of the present.... Paul A. Cantor's essay on The Tempest is especially noteworthy in discovering important political insights in one of the least political plays."
— National Review
"This re-issued, expanded, and still unrivaled collection of essays (by scholars drawn from literature and political philosophy, many renowned) demonstrates the unsuspected system and depth of Shakespeare's moral and political thought and magnifies our view of his artistic greatness as well."
— David Lowenthal,
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Boston College, and author of Shakespeare and the Good Life: Ethics and Politics in Dramatic Form
"The penetrating analyses contained in these essays assure that the importance of this path-breaking volume endures. The reissuance of this
updated version is an essential resource for all those who look to Shakespeare's poetry for insight into the fundamental human alternatives."
— Vickie Sullivan, Department of Political Science, Tufts University
Contributors Include:
- John E. Alvis
- Laurence Berns
- Allan Bloom
- Paul A. Cantor
- Louise Cowan
- Leo Paul S. de Alvarez
- Christopher Flannery
- Robert B. Heilman
- Harry V. Jaffa
- Michael Platt
- Dain A. Trafton
- Barbara Tovey
- Thomas G. West
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