Thinking with Shakespeare: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays

William Poole; Richard Scholar

Thinking with Shakespeare
Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays

Edited by William Poole and Richard Scholar

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright

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Michel de Montaigne (1533-92), French essayist

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23 February 2007 • 154pp

ISBN: 978-1-904350-84-2 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95

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Shakespeare's works do not embody any doctrine or set of beliefs, as his critics have long been tempted to suggest, but they do stage encounters with certain kinds of thinking — ethical, political, epistemological, even metaphysical — that still concern us nowadays. They can be shown to draw on ancient philosophies — Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism — either directly or through medieval and continental Renaissance thought. Or their scenarios can be likened to those of other kinds of intellectual argument, such as legal or theological discourse. The essays collected in this volume, which is dedicated to A. D. Nuttall, demonstrate the value of 'thinking with' Shakespeare, either as embodied in Shakespeare's own creative programme or in our use of philosophical paradigms as an approach to his works.

William Poole is Fellow and Tutor in English, New College, Oxford. Richard Scholar is Fellow and Tutor in French, Oriel College, Oxford.

Reviews:

‘In his witty, deeply learned and humane "Last Word", Nuttall reminds us that the famous principle of economy in explanation, Ockham's Razor, when applied to Shakespeare's plays, should be renamed "Ockham's Beard", which prompts us to ask of any of Shakespeare's plays, "What else is going on?"... What makes this collection distinctive is that nearly all of these essays focus centrally on genre.’ — Paul Cefalu, Shakespeare Quarterly 59.3, Fall 2008, 345-48
‘Frank Kermode once referred to Nuttall (who died in 2007) as "probably the most philosophically-minded of modern literary critics", and the volume reflects this emphasis... A stimulating collection of pieces, of relevance not just to Shakespeareans but also to anyone with an interest in questions of the nature of literary value.’ — unsigned, Forum for Modern Language Studies 46.1, January 2010, 118-19

Contents:

1-8	Introduction William Poole, Richard Scholar	Cite
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9-22	Why Shakespeare is not Michelangelo Colin Burrow	Cite
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23-32	The Opinion of Pythagoras Gabriel Josipovici	Cite
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33-52	Shakespeare Philosophus Charles Martindale	Cite
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53-72	False Trials and the Impulse to Try in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries Subha Mukherji	Cite
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73-92	Two Concepts of Reality in Antony and Cleopatra N. K. Sugimura	Cite
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93-114	Dreaming, Looking, and Seeing: Shakespeare and a Myth of Resurrection Stephen Medcalf	Cite
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115-120	When Shakespeare Met Montaigne Terence Cave	Cite
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121-128	The Last Word A. D. Nuttall	Cite
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Thinking with ShakespeareComparative and Interdisciplinary Essays

Edited by William Poole and Richard Scholar

Thinking with Shakespeare
Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays