Shakespeare and Virtue: A Handbook

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· Cambridge University Press
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This volume maps Shakespearean virtue in all its plasticity and variety, providing thirty-eight succinct, wide-ranging essays that reveal a breadth and diversity exceeding any given morality or code of behaviour. Clearly explaining key concepts in the history of ethics and in classical, theological, and global virtue traditions, the collection reveals their presence in the works of Shakespeare in interpersonal, civic, and ecological scenes of action. Paying close attention to individual identity and social environment, chapters also consider how the virtuous horizons broached in Shakespearean drama have been tested anew by the plays' global travels and fresh encounters with different traditions. Including sections on global wisdom, performance and pedagogy, this handbook affirms virtue as a resource for humanistic education and the building of human capacity.

About the author

Julia Reinhard Lupton is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author or co-author of five books on Shakespeare, including Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life (2018), Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life (2013), and Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology (2006). She is the co-director of the New Swan Shakespeare Center at UC, Irvine.

Donovan Sherman is Associate Professor of English at Seton Hall University, in South Orange, New Jersey. His most recent book is The Philosopher's Toothache: Embodied Stoicism in Early Modern English Drama (2021). He is also the author of Second Death: Theatricalities of the Soul in Shakespeare's Drama (2016) and co-author of the last two editions of the textbook Theatre Brief.

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