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Shakespeare's humanism /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Shakespeare's humanism // Robin Headlam Wells.
Author:	Wells, Robin Headlam,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 278 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Humanism in literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483622
ISBN:	9780511483622 (ebook)

Shakespeare's humanism /
Wells, Robin Headlam,

Shakespeare's humanism /Robin Headlam Wells. - 1 online resource (x, 278 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Shakespeare and English humanism -- Gender -- Value pluralism -- Social justice -- Men, women and civilisation -- Love and death -- History -- Genius -- Anti-humanism.

Renaissance humanists believed that if you want to build a just society you must begin with the facts of human nature. This book argues that the idea of a universal human nature was as important to Shakespeare as it was to every other Renaissance writer. In doing so it questions the central principle of post-modern Shakespeare criticism. Postmodernists insist that the notion of defining a human essence was alien to Shakespeare and his contemporaries; as radical anti-essentialists, the Elizabethans were, in effect, postmodernists before their time. In challenging this claim Shakespeare's Humanism shows that for Shakespeare, as for every other humanist writer in this period, the key to all wise action was 'the knowledge of our selves and our human condition'.

ISBN: 9780511483622 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

801322
Shakespeare, William,
1564-1616--Literary style.Subjects--Topical Terms:

578736
Humanism in literature.

LC Class. No.: PR3001 / .W46 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 822.33

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