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Stoicism as performance in Much Ado About Nothing : acting indifferently
- Title
- Stoicism as performance in Much Ado About Nothing : acting indifferently / Donovan Sherman.
- Author
- Sherman, Donovan
- Publication
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- 65 pages; 18 cm.
- Summary
- This Element demonstrates how Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing models an understanding of the philosophy of Stoicism as performance, rather than as intellectual doctrine. To do this, it explores how, despite many early modern cultural institutions' suppression of Stoicism's theatrical capacity, a performative understanding lived on in one of the most influential texts of the era, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and that this performativity was itself inherited from one of Castiglione's sources, Cicero's De Oratore. Donovan Sherman concludes with a sustained reading of Much Ado to demonstrate how the play, in performance, itself acts as a Stoic exercise--back cover.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare performance
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare performance.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 60-65).
- Contents
- 1. Why Truth? -- 2. Why Representation? -- 3. A Certain Recklessness -- 4. No More Than Reason -- References.
- Call Number
- JFC 19-513
- ISBN
- 9781108707299
- 1108707297
- 9781108622110 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1112372142
- Author
- Sherman, Donovan, author.
- Title
- Stoicism as performance in Much Ado About Nothing : acting indifferently / Donovan Sherman.
- Publisher
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare performanceCambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare performance.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 60-65).
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781108622110
- Research Call Number
- JFC 19-513