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Shakespearean ethics in extremity : phenomenology, theater, experience /

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What does it feel like to be enjoined to avenge your father's murder? What is it like to banish your daughter or disavow your community? To murder? Focusing on Shakespeare's most ethically charged plays, this book addresses Shakespearean theater as an arena where the experience of ethics i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kearney, James (James Joseph) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Ethics.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
DRAMA.
Shakespeare.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
Renaissance.
Literature: history & criticism.
Literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:What does it feel like to be enjoined to avenge your father's murder? What is it like to banish your daughter or disavow your community? To murder? Focusing on Shakespeare's most ethically charged plays, this book addresses Shakespearean theater as an arena where the experience of ethics is simulated or reverse engineered, counterfeited or created.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations.
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780198954590
019895459X