Tag: Shakespearean

Free Download J. Douglas Rabb, "Joss Whedon as Shakespearean Moralist: Narrative Ethics of the Bard and the Buffyverse"
English | ISBN: 0786474408 | 2014 | 224 pages | EPUB | 793 KB
Drawing on the works of Shakespeare and American screenwriter Joss Whedon, this study in narrative ethics contends that Whedon is the Shakespeare of our time. The Bard wrote before the influence of the modern moral philosophers, while Whedon is writing in the postmodern period. It is argued that Whedon’s work is more in harmony with the early modern values of Shakespeare than with modern ethics, which trace their origin to 17th and 18th century moral philosophy. This study includes a detailed discussion of representative works of Shakespeare and Whedon, showing how they can and should be read as forms of narrative ethics.

Free Download J. Douglas Rabb, "Joss Whedon as Shakespearean Moralist: Narrative Ethics of the Bard and the Buffyverse"
English | ISBN: 0786474408 | 2014 | 224 pages | EPUB | 793 KB
Drawing on the works of Shakespeare and American screenwriter Joss Whedon, this study in narrative ethics contends that Whedon is the Shakespeare of our time. The Bard wrote before the influence of the modern moral philosophers, while Whedon is writing in the postmodern period. It is argued that Whedon’s work is more in harmony with the early modern values of Shakespeare than with modern ethics, which trace their origin to 17th and 18th century moral philosophy. This study includes a detailed discussion of representative works of Shakespeare and Whedon, showing how they can and should be read as forms of narrative ethics.

Free Download Shakespearean maternities : crises of conception in early modern England By Laoutaris, Chris; Shakespeare, William
2008 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0748624368 | PDF | 48 MB
This study explores maternity in the ‘disciplines’ of early modern England. Placing the reproductive female body centre-stage in Shakespeare’s theatre, Laoutaris ranges beyond the domestic sphere in order to recuperate the wider intellectual, epistemological, and archaeological significance of maternity to the Renaissance imagination. Focusing on ‘anatomy’ in Hamlet, ‘natural history’ in The Tempest, ‘demonology’ in Macbeth, and ‘heraldry’ in Antony and Cleopatra, this book reveals the ways in which the maternal body was figured in, and in turn contributed towards the re-conceptualisation of, bodies of knowledge. Laoutaris argues that Shakespeare resists a monolithic concept of motherhood, presenting instead a range of contested ‘maternities’ which challenge the distinctive ‘ways of knowing’ these early disciplines worked to impose on the order of created nature

Free Download Tzachi Zamir, "Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama"
English | 2012 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 0691155453, 0691125635 | EPUB | 3,9 mb
Hamlet tells Horatio that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy. In Double Vision, philosopher and literary critic Tzachi Zamir argues that there are more things in Hamlet than are dreamt of-or at least conceded-by most philosophers. Making an original and persuasive case for the philosophical value of literature, Zamir suggests that certain important philosophical insights can be gained only through literature. But such insights cannot be reached if literature is deployed merely as an aesthetic sugaring of a conceptual pill. Philosophical knowledge is not opposed to, but is consonant with, the literariness of literature. By focusing on the experience of reading literature as literature and not philosophy, Zamir sets a theoretical framework for a philosophically oriented literary criticism that will appeal both to philosophers and literary critics.

Free Download Jennifer Adams, "Y is for Yorick: A Slightly Irreverent Shakespearean ABC Book for Grown-Ups"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1423607546 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 1.7 mb
The perfect gift for Shakespeare fans, Y Is for Yorick is full of witty references to the Bard’s unforgettable Descriptions and characters. Readers will love perusing the cheeky illustrations and reading such entries as "J is for Juliet. Juliet teaches all young girls that if you truly love someone, wholly and completely, it will be the death of you."

Free Download Darlena Ciraulo, "Performing Shakespearean Appropriations: Essays in Honor of Christy Desmet "
English | ISBN: 1683933605 | 2022 | 252 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 11 MB

Free Download Jacopo della Quercia, "MacTrump: A Shakespearean Tragicomedy of the Trump Administration, Part I"
English | 2019 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 1683691601 | EPUB | 18,8 mb
For readers craving a humorous antidote to the sound and the fury of American politics,this clever satire, written in iambic pentameter in the style of Shakespeare, wittily fictionalizes the events of the first two years of the Trump administration.