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Shakespeare and the truth-teller : confronting the cynic ideal
- Title
- Shakespeare and the truth-teller : confronting the cynic ideal / David Hershinow.
- Author
- Hershinow, David
- Publication
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xi, 251 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Highlighting the necessity of literary thinking to political philosophy, this book explores Shakespeare's responses to sixteenth-century debates over the revolutionary potential of Cynic critical activity - debates that persist in later centuries and inform major developments in Western intellectual history. Analysing cynic characterisations of Lear's Fool, Hamlet and Timon of Athens, Hershinow presents new ways of thinking about modernity's engagement with classical models and literature's engagement with politics.
- Series Statement
- Edinburgh critical studies in Shakespeare and philosophy
- Uniform Title
- Edinburgh critical studies in Shakespeare and philosophy.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index.
- Contents
- Cynicism and the courage of truth -- The realist turn : parrhêsia, character and the limits of didacticism -- Shakespeare's bitter fool : the politics and aesthetics of free speech -- Cynicism, melancholy and Hamlet's Memento moriae -- Cash is king : Timon, Diogenes and the search for sovereign freedom.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-1553
- ISBN
- 9781474439572
- 1474439578
- LCCN
- 2019457730
- OCLC
- 1085226171
- Author
- Hershinow, David, author.
- Title
- Shakespeare and the truth-teller : confronting the cynic ideal / David Hershinow.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Edinburgh critical studies in Shakespeare and philosophyEdinburgh critical studies in Shakespeare and philosophy.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-1553