Shakespearean Ethics in Extremity - Phenomenology, Theater, Experience

About the author

James Kearney is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England, which won the CCL's Book of the Year Award. With Julia Reinhard Lupton and Lowell Gallagher, he co-edited Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Performance, and Philosophy. His work has appeared in a variety of journals and collections, including Arden Shakespeare, English Literary Renaissance, Shakespeare Studies, Criticism, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare, and Cultural Reformations. With Kevin Curran, he co-edited a special issue of the journal Criticism on Shakespeare and phenomenology.

Summary

What does it feel like to be enjoined to avenge your father's murder? What is it like to banish your daughter or disavow your community? To murder? Focusing on Shakespeare's most ethically charged plays, this book addresses Shakespearean theater as an arena where the experience of ethics is simulated or reverse engineered, counterfeited or created.

Product details

• Authors: Editor, James Kearney, James (Professor of English Literature Kearney
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.04.2025
• EAN: 9780198954569
• ISBN: 978-0-19-895456-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, DRAMA / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean