Shakespeare Against War

Author : Robert White
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781399516242

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Whilst Shakespearean drama provides eloquent calls to war, more often than not these are undercut or outweighed by compelling appeals to peaceful alternatives conveyed through narrative structure, dramatic context and poetic utterance. Placing Shakespeare's works in the history of pacifist thought, Robert White argues that Shakespeare's plays consistently challenge appeals to heroism and revenge and reveal the brutal futility of war. White also examines Shakespeare's interest in the mental states of military officers when their ingrained training is tested in love relationships. In imagery and themes, war infiltrates love, with problematical consequences, reflected in Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies alike. Challenging a critical orthodoxy that military engagement in war is an inevitable and necessary condition, White draws analogies with the experience of modern warfare, showing the continuing relevance of Shakespeare's plays which deal with basic issues of war and peace that are still evident.

Author : Paola Pugliatti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317056416

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Shakespeare and the Just War Tradition by Paola Pugliatti Pdf

Brought to light in this study is a connection between the treatment of war in Shakespeare's plays and the issue of the 'just war', which loomed large both in religious and in lay treatises of Shakespeare's time. The book re-reads Shakespeare's representations of war in light of both the changing historical and political contexts in which they were produced and of Shakespeare's possible connection with the culture and ideology of the European just war tradition. But to discuss Shakespeare's representations of war means, for Pugliatti, not simply to examine his work from a literary point of view or to historicize those representations in connection with the discourses (and the practice) of war which were produced in his time; it also means to consider or re-consider present-day debates for or against war and the kind of war ideology which is trying to assert itself in our time in light of the tradition which shaped those discourses and representations and which still substantiates our 'moral' view of war.

Author : R. King,P. Franssen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230228276

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Shakespeare and War by R. King,P. Franssen Pdf

A lively collection of essays from scholars from across Europe, North America and Australia. The book ranges from Shakespeare's use of manuals on war written for the sixteenth-century English public by an English mercenary, to reflections on the ways in which Shakespeare has been represented in Nazi Germany, wartime Denmark, or cold war Romania.

Author : Patrick Gray
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789202632

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Shakespeare and the Ethics of War by Patrick Gray Pdf

How does Shakespeare represent war? This volume reviews scholarship to date on the question and introduces new perspectives, looking at contemporary conflict through the lens of the past. Through his haunting depiction of historical bloodshed, including the Trojan War, the fall of the Roman Republic, and the Wars of the Roses, Shakespeare illuminates more recent political violence, ranging from the British occupation of Ireland to the Spanish Civil War, the Balkans War, and the past several decades of U. S. military engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Can a war be just? What is the relation between the ruler and the ruled? What motivates ethnic violence? Shakespeare’s plays serve as the frame for careful explorations of perennial problems of human co-existence: the politics of honor, the ethics of diplomacy, the responsibility of non-combatants, and the tension between idealism and Realpolitik.

Author : Theodor Meron Charles L. Denison Professor of Law New York University School of Law
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998-11-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780195349405

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Bloody Constraint : War and Chivalry in Shakespeare by Theodor Meron Charles L. Denison Professor of Law New York University School of Law Pdf

War is a major theme in Shakespeare's plays. Aside from its dramatic appeal, it provided him with a context in which his characters, steeped in the ideals of chivalry, could discuss such concepts as honor, courage, patriotism, and justice. Well aware of the decline of chivalry in his own era, Shakespeare gave his characters lines calling for civilized behavior, mercy, humanitarian principles, and moral responsibility. In this remarkable new book, eminent legal scholar Theodor Meron looks at contemporary international humanitarian law and rules for the conduct of war through the lens of Shakespeare's plays and discerns chivalry's influence there. The book comes as a response to the question of whether the world has lost anything by having a system of law based on the Hague and Geneva conventions. Meron contends that, despite the foolishness and vanity of its most extreme manifestations, chivalry served as a customary law that restrained and humanized the conflicts of the generally chaotic and brutal Middle Ages. It had the advantage of resting on the sense that rules arise naturally out of societies, their armed forces, and their rulers on the basis of experience. Against a background of Medieval and Renaissance sources as well as Shakespeare's historical and dramatic settings, Meron considers the ways in which law, morality, conscience, and state necessity are deployed in Shakespeare's plays to promote a society in which soldiers behave humanely and leaders are held to high standards of civilized behavior. Thus he illustrates the literary genealogy of such modern international humanitarian concerns as the treatment of prisoners and of noncombatants and accountability for war crimes, showing that the chivalric legacy has not been lost entirely. Fresh and insightful, Bloody Constraint will interest scholars of international law, lovers of Shakespeare, and anyone interested in the history of war.

Author : Simon Barker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748631629

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War and Nation in the Theatre of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries by Simon Barker Pdf

This original study explores a vital aspect of early modern cultural history: the way that warfare is represented in the theatre of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The book contrasts the Tudor and Stuart prose that called for the establishment of a standing army in the name of nation, discipline and subjectivity, and the drama of the period that invited critique of this imperative. Barker examines contemporary dramatic texts both for their radical position on war and, in the case of the later drama, for their subversive commentary on an emerging idealisation of Shakespeare and his work.The book argues that the early modern period saw the establishment of political, social and theological attitudes to war that were to become accepted as natural in succeeding centuries. Barker's reading of the drama of the period reveals the discontinuities in this project as a way of commenting on the use of the past within modern warfare. The book is also a survey and analysis of literary theory over the last tw

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082147102

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The Life of King Henry the Fifth by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Franziska Quabeck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110301113

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Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare by Franziska Quabeck Pdf

The concept of the just war poses one of the most important ethical questions to date. Can war ever be justified and, if so, how? When is a cause of war proportional to its costs and who must be held responsible? The monograph Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare demonstrates that the necessary moral evaluation of these questions is not restricted to the philosophical moral and political discourse. This analysis of Shakespeare's plays, which focuses on the histories, tragedies and Roman plays in chronological order, brings to light that the drama includes an elaborate and complex debate of the ethical issues of warfare. The plays that feature in this analysis range from Henry VI to Coriolanus and they are analysed according to the three Aquinian principles of legitimate authority, just cause and right intention. Also extending the principles of analysis to more modern notions of responsibility, proportionality and the jus in bello-presupposition, this monograph shows that just war theory constitutes a dominant theoretical approach to war in the Shakespearean canon.

Author : Paul A. Jorgensen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780520371392

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Shakespeare's Military World by Paul A. Jorgensen Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

Author : William Shakespeare,Francis Colmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Quotations, English
ISBN : MINN:31951001176280U

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Shakespeare in Time of War by William Shakespeare,Francis Colmer Pdf

A collection of excerpts from the plays arranged in topical allusion to events of the First World War.

Author : Theodor Meron
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Chivalry in literature
ISBN : 9780195144062

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Bloody Constraint by Theodor Meron Pdf

Chivalry, one of Shakespeare's central themes, retains its pertinence and topicality in our rules for international humanitarian law and the conduct of war. Against a background of Medieval and Renaissance sources as well as Shakespeare's historical and dramatic realms, Professor Meron considers the ways in which law, chivalry, morality, conscience, and state necessity are deployed in Shakespeare to promote a society in which soldiers behave humanely and leaders are held to high standards of civilized behavior. In doing so, he illustrates the literary genealogy of such contemporary international humanitarian concerns as the treatment of prisoners and of women and accountability for war crimes.

Author : Patrick Gray
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789202632

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Shakespeare and the Ethics of War by Patrick Gray Pdf

How does Shakespeare represent war? This volume reviews scholarship to date on the question and introduces new perspectives, looking at contemporary conflict through the lens of the past. Through his haunting depiction of historical bloodshed, including the Trojan War, the fall of the Roman Republic, and the Wars of the Roses, Shakespeare illuminates more recent political violence, ranging from the British occupation of Ireland to the Spanish Civil War, the Balkans War, and the past several decades of U. S. military engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Can a war be just? What is the relation between the ruler and the ruled? What motivates ethnic violence? Shakespeare’s plays serve as the frame for careful explorations of perennial problems of human co-existence: the politics of honor, the ethics of diplomacy, the responsibility of non-combatants, and the tension between idealism and Realpolitik.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : OCLC:1080668308

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Shakespeare in Time of War by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Francis Colmer,William Shakespeare
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Shakespeare in Time of War by Francis Colmer,William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare,Francis Colmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Quotations, English
ISBN : UOM:39015082266845

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Shakespeare in Time of War by William Shakespeare,Francis Colmer Pdf

Applies Shakespearean quotations to major figures, events, and trends in the First World War.