The authors of this volume explore the Bard's dramatization of perennial questions about human nature, moral virtue, and statesmanship. Reading his plays as works of philosophical literature enhances our understanding of political life and provides a source of advice and inspiration for the citizens and statesmen of today and tomorrow.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Othello: Jealousy Becomes Tragic
Timothy Burns
2 Macbeth: The Spiritual Drama of the Tyrannical Soul
Carson Holloway
3 Wings as Swift as Love: Hamlet and the Virtues (and Vices) of a King
L. Joseph Hebert
4 Both False and True: Love, Death, and Poetry in Love's Labor's Lost
Denise Schaeffer and Mary P. Nichols
5 Jurisprudence in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
Thomas Vincent Svogun
6 Christian Ethics and Political Moderation in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
Luigi Bradizza
7 The Bastard in King John; or, On the Need for a Unified English Nation
Khalil M. Habib
8 To Make High Majesty Look Like Itself: Shakespeare's Richard II and the Nature of the Good Regime
Joseph Alulis
9 "This Blessed Plot": Divine Justice and Law from Richard II's Trial by Combat to Henry V's Battle of Agincourt
David Alvis
