Virtue's Own Feature: Shakespeare and the Virtue Ethics Tradition"Using an historical approach, Virtue's Own Feature explores nine of Shakespeare's most successful works as representations of the passions, virtues, and vices as they are complexly and extensively set out by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas." "The work first undertakes to describe the late Elizabethan poetic of Sir Philip Sidney, which is demonstrated to be Shakespeare's poetic as well. Second, this study explores Shakespeare's plays in relation to the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of moral philosophy, one important branch of a major sixteenth-century philosophical tradition."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... Venus and Adonis was misread among " the younger sort " for its erotic content , and the acerbic observation of Ben Jonson that " there be some men are borne only to suck the poyson of bookes ... [ a ] nd such are they that only rellish ...
... Venus and Adonis was misread among " the younger sort " for its erotic content , and the acerbic observation of Ben Jonson that " there be some men are borne only to suck the poyson of bookes ... [ a ] nd such are they that only rellish ...
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... Venus and Adonis in great detail . The poem falls obviously into two parts : in the first , Venus is a comic figure who pleads with the reluctant Adonis ; in the second , she is a pathetic figure who fears and then laments the death of ...
... Venus and Adonis in great detail . The poem falls obviously into two parts : in the first , Venus is a comic figure who pleads with the reluctant Adonis ; in the second , she is a pathetic figure who fears and then laments the death of ...
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... Venus is apprehended as repugnant by Adonis for two reasons : first , he is too young for love and so is unsuitable for Venus ( he twice protests that he is " unripe " ) ; second , he loves to hunt the boar , an activity contrary to Venus's ...
... Venus is apprehended as repugnant by Adonis for two reasons : first , he is too young for love and so is unsuitable for Venus ( he twice protests that he is " unripe " ) ; second , he loves to hunt the boar , an activity contrary to Venus's ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 15 |
Sidneys Apology and Shakespeares Poetic | 21 |
Copyright | |
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