Stoicism as performance in Much ado about nothing : acting indifferently /

This book demonstrates how Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing models an understanding of the philosophy of Stoicism as performance, rather than as intellectual doctrine. To do this, it explores how, despite many early modern cultural institutions' suppression of Stoicism's theatrica...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sherman, Donovan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
Series:Cambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare performance.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Why Truth?
  • 2. Why Representation?
  • 3. A Certain Recklessness
  • 4. No More Than Reason
  • References.