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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... sword with Laertes , and Gertrude drinks from Claudius's cup . Romeo fails to receive Friar Laurence's letter explaining Juliet's feigned death , and so in pas- sionate impatience kills himself just before Juliet awakens , the point ...
... sword with Laertes , and Gertrude drinks from Claudius's cup . Romeo fails to receive Friar Laurence's letter explaining Juliet's feigned death , and so in pas- sionate impatience kills himself just before Juliet awakens , the point ...
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... sword , and know thou a more horrid hent . When he is drunk asleep , or in his rage , Or in th ' incestuous pleasure of his bed , At game a - swearing , or about some act That has no relish of salvation in't - Then trip him , that his ...
... sword , and know thou a more horrid hent . When he is drunk asleep , or in his rage , Or in th ' incestuous pleasure of his bed , At game a - swearing , or about some act That has no relish of salvation in't - Then trip him , that his ...
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... Sword : And this priueledge shee giueth vnto her Administrators : that they shall mitigate the seueretie of the Law , according to the quallyty of the offence ......... .. I humbly beseeche you to accept his satisfaction , and by this ...
... Sword : And this priueledge shee giueth vnto her Administrators : that they shall mitigate the seueretie of the Law , according to the quallyty of the offence ......... .. I humbly beseeche you to accept his satisfaction , and by this ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 15 |
Sidneys Apology and Shakespeares Poetic | 21 |
Copyright | |
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