During the Renaissance, moral philosophy came to permeate the minds of many, including the spectators that poured into Shakespeare's Globe theatre. Examining these strains of thought that formed the basis for humanism, Raspa delves into King Lear, Hamlet, among others to unlock what influence this had on both Shakespeare and his interpreters.
During the Renaissance, moral philosophy came to permeate the minds of many, including the spectators that poured into Shakespeare's Globe theatre. Examining these strains of thought that formed the basis for humanism, Raspa delves into King Lear, Hamlet, among others to unlock what influence this had on both Shakespeare and his interpreters.
1. Shakespeare, the Critics, and Humanism
2. Metaphysics as the Way Things Are: King John and Hamlet
3. The Wisdom of King Lear
4. Macbeth's Imagination as Fatal Flaw
5. Beauty and Misfortune in Romeo and Juliet
6. Of Animals and Men: The Tempest
Raspa (retired, Laval Univ., Canada) argues that contemporary Shakespeare criticism has moved too far away from the philosophical contexts of Shakespeares own time & . Raspa seeks to redress this by reading a variety of plays through the lens of Renaissance humanism, offering explanations of how Shakespeares contemporaries would have necessarily understood various moments in the plays. & Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. (A. Castaldo, Choice, Vol. 54 (5), January, 2017)
Anthony Raspa is a Retired Professor of English at Laval University, Canada.
Shakespeare the Renaissance Humanist is a study of the moral philosophy that underlay the 'street' humanism in the mind of Shakespeare's spectator when he went to see Hamlet or King Lear at the Globe. The work examines the currents of thought at the basis of this humanism to show how it functioned aló#
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