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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
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Shakespearean Ethics in Extremity: Phenomenology, Theater, Experience
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Ethics In Medias Res
  • Ethos, Agency, Luck
  • Experiments, Experiences, Ethopoeia
  • From Decorum to Disaster
  • Phenomenological Theaters, Chapter Descriptions
  • 1: Recognitions King Lear and the (Ethical) Problem of Other Minds
  • Bursting Hearts and Death by Anagnorisis
  • Dispossessions
  • Encountering the Infinite on the Road to Dover
  • Spectacle's Demand, Dog's Office
  • Disorientations, Benedictions
  • "This present summons"
  • 2: Attachments Obligation and Negative Cosmopolitanism in Timon of Athens
  • "Upon the beached verge of the salt flood"
  • Cosmopolitan Dogs and Negative Cosmopolitanism
  • The Sun's a Thief, the Dog Coins Gold
  • Bonds without Bonds, Friends without Friends
  • Timon's Wager, Original Debt
  • In Defense of Socrates's Slippers
  • Decimation and Disavowal
  • Epitaphs, Attachments
  • 3: In Decision: Experiencing Agency in Macbeth
  • Macbeth, Rapt
  • Lady Macbeth, Supernatural Soliciting
  • "Handle toward my hand"
  • Knowing With, Voices and Hands
  • The Cut of Decision
  • 4: Shipwrecked Ethics Chance, Affect, Tragicomedy
  • Pericles, Thrown
  • Mixed Action and Shipwreck
  • Mixed Action and Spectacular Contingency
  • Lachrymose Zannis and Affective Complexity
  • Lipsius, Tragedy, Ethical Incapacity
  • "'Tis a lucky day"
  • Notes
  • Notes to Introduction
  • Notes to Chapter 1
  • Notes to Chapter 2
  • Notes to Chapter 3
  • Notes to Chapter 4
  • Bibliography
  • Index.