They do, however, support editor Michael Bristol's contention that you have to be able to take these creations seriously. Theoretically fluent in the debates of the last twenty years, the authors in the volume never confuse Shakespearean characters with real people. Speaking directly to issues of meaning in Shakespeare's plays, the essays explore how narratives of self-reflection and self-preservation often clash when confronted with the requirements of moral agency, and reveal how unpredictable such stories are when performed on the respective stages of history and society. The distinguished contributors to this new anthology return such questions to center stage, and do so through fresh vocabularies of gesture, embodied movement, political theory, behavioral and cognitive science, ethics and moral philosophy. What's Virtue Ethics Got to Do With It: Shakespearean Character as Moral Character, Sara Coodin (McGill University, Canada) Works Cited IndexĬharacter criticism fell out of fashion during the last two decades of the twentieth century, and with it, to some extent, questions of individual moral agency. Shades of Grey and Finnick Odair in the sequel to the dystopian science. Agent-Regret in Shakespearean Tragedy, Andrew Escobedo (Ohio University, USA) 12.Agency and repentance in The Winter's Tale, Gregory Currie (University of Nottingham, UK) 13. Garrett John Hedlund (born September 3, 1984) is an American actor.

The Fool, the Blind, and the Jew, Tzachi Zamir (The Hebrew University, Israel) 11. Quoting the Enemy: Character, Self-Interpretation, and the Question of Perspective in Shakespeare, Mustapha Fahmi(Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada) 10. Liebler (Montclair State University, USA) Part III: Moral Characters 9. 'The oldest hath borne most': the Burdens of Aging and the Morality of Uselessness in King Lear, Naomi C. Moral Questions and Questionable Ethics in Measure for Measure and The Merchant of Venice, Kathryn R. To 'Tempt the Rheumy and Unpurged Air': Contagion and Agency in Julius Caesar, (University of North Carolina, USA) 7. Conduct (Un)becoming or, Playing the Warrior in Macbeth, Sharon O'Dair (University of Alabama, USA) 6. Excuses, Bepissing, and Non-Being: Shakespearean Puzzles about Agency, Richard Strier (The University of Chicago, USA) Part II: Social Norms 5. Wordplay and the Ethics of Self-Deception in Shakespeare's Tragedies, Keira Travis (St. Knapp (Eastern Michigan University, USA) 3. A Shakespearean Phenomenology of Moral Conviction, James A. Moral Agency and Its Problems in Julius Caesar: Political Power, Choice, and History, Hugh Grady (Arcadia University, USA) 2. Introduction: Is Shakespeare a Moral Philosopher? Michael Bristol (McGill University, Canada) Part I: The Agency of Agents 1.

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