Shakespeare and Happiness
Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 25 September 2023
- ISBN 9781032204543
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages242 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English 540
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Short description:
Shakespeare and Happiness is a study of attitudes to happiness in the early modern period and in Shakespeare?s plays.
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Shakespeare and Happiness is a study of attitudes to happiness in the early modern period and in Shakespeare?s plays. It considers the conflicting influences of religion and Aristotelian philosophy in shaping attitudes to the possibility of attaining happiness.
By being the first book to focus specifically on the representation of happiness in Shakespeare?s plays, it contributes to
- feminist approaches to Shakespeare by foregrounding the important role of women in showing the right way to live and achieve happiness.
- timely criticism, as it considers Shakespeare in the current context of the More
Table of Contents:
Introduction; Part I. Thinking About Happiness; 1. Happiness in the Early Modern Period; 2. Approaches to Shakespeare; Part II. Happiness Gained: The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It and Twelfth Night; 3. Looking for Different Types of Happiness; 4. Looking for Happiness in a Fallen World; 5. Rewriting Eve; Part III. Happiness Lost: Hamlet, Measure for Measure, Othello and The Winter?s Tale; 6. Trapped in a Fallen World; 7. Blaming Eve: Exercises in Power; 8. And After That Forgiveness?; Conclusion; Bibliography
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