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Livre 4 sur 14: Rethinking the Early Modern

Curran, Kevin

 
9780810135161: Shakespeare's Legal Ecologies: Law and Distributed Selfhood
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ISBN 10 : 0810135167 ISBN 13 : 9780810135161
Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Shakespeare's Legal Ecologies offers the first sustained examination of the relationship between law and selfhood in Shakespeare's work. Taking five plays and the sonnets as case studies, Kevin Curran argues that law provided Shakespeare with the conceptual resources to imagine selfhood in social and distributed terms, as a product of interpersonal exchange or as a gathering of various material forces. In the course of these discussions, Curran reveals Shakespeare's distinctly communitarian vision of personal and political experience, the way he regarded living, thinking, and acting in the world as materially and socially embedded practices.

At the center of the book is Shakespeare's fascination with questions that are fundamental to both law and philosophy: What are the sources of agency? What counts as a person? For whom am I responsible, and how far does that responsibility extend? What is truly mine? Curran guides readers through Shakespeare's responses to these questions, paying careful attention to both historical and intellectual contexts.

The result is a book that advances a new theory of Shakespeare's imaginative relationship to law and an original account of law's role in the ethical work of his plays and sonnets. Readers interested in Shakespeare, theater and philosophy, law, and the history of ideas will find Shakespeare's Legal Ecologies to be an essential resource.

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À propos de l'auteur

KEVIN CURRAN is a professor of early modern literature at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He is the author of Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court and editor of Shakespeare and Judgment.

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Éditeur
Northwestern University Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0810135167
ISBN 13 
9780810135161
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
232
Coordonnées du fabricant
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