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2007
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| Publication |
New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.
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| Description |
viii, 230pRed Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Oxford-educated McGinn (philosophy, U. of Miami) teases out the philosophical ideas he has found in Shakespeare's texts, trying not to poach on scholars of Shakespeare scholars in literature or theater. Among the themes are skepticism and the possibility of human knowledge, the nature of the self and personal identity, the understanding of causation, the existence and nature of evil, and the formative power of language.
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| Contents |
General themes
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Hamlet
Othello
MacBeth
King Lear
The Tempest
Shakespeare and gender
Shakespeare and psychology
Shakespeare and ethics
Shakespeare and tragedy
Shakespeare’s genius
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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| Standard Number |
9780060856168 Pb.
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