Shakespeare And The Idea Of Western Civilization

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Shakespeare and the Idea of Western Civilization

Author : R.V. Young
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780813235240

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Shakespeare and the Idea of Western Civilization by R.V. Young Pdf

William Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the Western world and most certainly its greatest playwright. His actual relationship to Western civilization has not, however, been thoroughly investigated. At a time when that civilization, as well as its premier dramatist, is subjected to severe and increasing criticism for both its supposed crimes against the rest of the world and its fundamental principles, a reassessment of the culture of the West is overdue. Shakespeare and the Idea of Western Civilization offers an unprecedented account of how the playwright draws upon his civilization's unique culture and illuminates its basic features. Rather than a treatment of all the works, R.V. Young focuses on how some of Shakespeare's best and most well-known plays dramatize the West's conception of social institutions and historical developments such as love and marriage, ethnic and racial prejudice, political order, colonialism, and religion. Shakespeare and the Idea of Western Civilization provides a spirited defense of the West and its greatest poet at a time when both are the object of virulent academic and political hostility.

Shakespeare and the Idea of Western Civilization

Author : R. V. Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Civilization, Western, in literature
ISBN : 0813235251

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Shakespeare and the Idea of Western Civilization by R. V. Young Pdf

"The author argues his viewpoint--that Shakespeare's drama achieves not a break with Western literary and cultural tradition that has preceded him but instead is its consummate expression; the author demonstrates the aesthetic and moral validity of Shakespearean drama as well as its general validation of the principles of Western civilization"--

The Idea of Decline in Western History

Author : Arthur Herman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780684827919

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The Idea of Decline in Western History by Arthur Herman Pdf

Enth.: "Historical and Cultural Pessimism. Jacob Burckhardt and Friedrich Nietzsche" (S. 76-108).

Judeo-Christian Thought in Shakespeare’S Plays

Author : Thomas Arthur Bunger
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781480857452

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Judeo-Christian Thought in Shakespeare’S Plays by Thomas Arthur Bunger Pdf

Shakespeares works contain some of the most time-honored truths in Western civilization, and Shakespeare himself was a forward-thinking, enlightened man who wanted us to explore the way things were during his life, suggesting that we could all be better than what we are by human nature. Yet these now-revered Shakespearean truths were not created in a vacuum, and though Shakespeare was a product of the Renaissance, the England in which he lived was heavily influenced by Judeo-Christian thought. In Judeo-Christian Thought in Shakespeares Plays, author Thomas Arthur Bunger explores the continuing thread of Judeo-Christian thought that can be traced through the playwrights work. He offers an in-depth look at ten of Shakespeares plays as they relate to morality in the King James Bible, with Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Richard III, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, and Romeo and Juliet forming the basis for finding this thread. Shakespeare is not just a treasure of Western civilization; he is a treasure for the whole world, and his characters and their motives speak to humanity in general. There must, therefore, be something more to his insights than simply Western thought, and perhaps the inherent truth of living the godly life is what draws so many, everywhere, to Shakespeare.

Western Civilization!

Author : Nick Graham,Reed Martin,Austin Tichenor,Dee Ryan,Reduced Shakespeare Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Civilization, Western
ISBN : 0881452068

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Western Civilization! by Nick Graham,Reed Martin,Austin Tichenor,Dee Ryan,Reduced Shakespeare Company Pdf

In their first musical, the RSC turns their twisted sensibilities to the most famous and infamous characters, discoveries and events of the millennium. The last 1000 years will never be the same!

How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781642291599

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How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss by Peter Kreeft Pdf

Best-selling author Peter Kreeft presents a series of brilliant essays about many of the issues that increasingly divide our Western civilization and culture. He states that "these essays are not new proposals or solutions to today's problems. They are old. They have been tried, and have worked. They have made people happy and good. That is what makes them so radical and so unusual today. The most uncommon thing today is common sense." Kreeft says that one thing we can all do to help save our culture is to gather wisdom as data to preserve and remember, like the monks in the Dark Ages. Data is important and necessary; they are the premises for our conclusions. He presents relevant, philosophical data that can guide us, divided into 7 categories: epistemological, theological, metaphysical, anthropological, ethical, political, and historical. He then explores these categories with classic Kreeft insights, presenting 40 pithy points on how we can implement the data from these categories to help save civilization – and more importantly, save souls. He emphasizes the single most necessary thing we can do to save our civilization is to have children. If you don't have children your civilization will cease to exist. Before you can be good or evil, you must exist. Having children is heroic because it demands sacrificial love and commitment. Cherishing children is the single most generous and unselfish act that a society can perform for itself. He discusses the "unmentionable elephant in the room". It's sex. Religious liberty is being attacked in the name of "sexual liberty". Our culture war today is fundamentally about abortion, and abortion is about sex. Today we hear astonishing, selfish reasons people give to justify not having children, or killing children through abortion. So let's fight our culture war, which is truly a holy war, with joy and confidence. And with the one weapon that will infallibly win the future: children.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization

Author : Anthony Esolen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596980662

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization by Anthony Esolen Pdf

In The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to Western Civilization , Esolen describes the cultures that formed Western civilization, and explains to readers how each of them—from the Ancient Greeks and Romans, to the Renaissance humanists—has shaped the world we live in today. The latest work in the Politically Incorrect Guide (P.I.G.) series shows how the West laid the cornerstones of all modern civilization, including historical, artistic, and intellectual achievements.

Men, Women, and History

Author : Roland N. Stromberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0131466712

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Men, Women, and History by Roland N. Stromberg Pdf

This reader humanizes the study of Western civilization or modern history by presenting the biographies of 14 key indivduals - from William Shakespeare to Margaret Thatcher - within the context of the history and contemporary happenings around them.

Shakespeare's Ideas

Author : David Bevington
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444357639

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Shakespeare's Ideas by David Bevington Pdf

An in-depth exploration, through his plays and poems, of the philosophy of Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a "great mind". Written by a leading Shakespearean scholar Discusses an array of topics, including sex and gender, politics and political theory, writing and acting, religious controversy and issues of faith, skepticism and misanthropy, and closure Explores Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a "great mind"

Encounters in History

Author : Pieter Geyl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Historiography
ISBN : UOM:39015009160584

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Encounters in History by Pieter Geyl Pdf

In this book, the twelve history plays fall into two groups. There are nine dealing with English subjects and three inspired by Roman history. Among the nine named after English kings are some of the earliest plays known to have been composed by Shakespeare; all nine belong to the first ten years of his career as a dramatist, the whole of which covered not much more than twenty years (1590 to 1612 or 1613). Of the Roman plays, one followed immediately after the English series, but the two others belong to a later period, coming even after the great tragedies.

Shakespeare's Ocean

Author : Dan Brayton
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813932279

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Shakespeare's Ocean by Dan Brayton Pdf

Study of the sea--both in terms of human interaction with it and its literary representation--has been largely ignored by ecocritics. In Shakespeare’s Ocean, Dan Brayton foregrounds the maritime dimension of a writer whose plays and poems have had an enormous impact on literary notions of nature and, in so doing, plots a new course for ecocritical scholarship. Shakespeare lived during a time of great expansion of geographical knowledge. The world in which he imagined his plays was newly understood to be a sphere covered with water. In vital readings of works ranging from The Comedy of Errors to the valedictory The Tempest, Brayton demonstrates Shakespeare’s remarkable conceptual mastery of the early modern maritime world and reveals a powerful benthic imagination at work.

Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Lawrence Agonistes

Author : Barry J. Scherr
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527515451

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Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Lawrence Agonistes by Barry J. Scherr Pdf

This book is the first to examine the influence of Shakespeare—particularly Hamlet—on D. H. Lawrence. Using the Bloomian theory of the “anxiety of influence” to probe the startling depths of Lawrence’s agon with his towering precursor Shakespeare, it closely examines Lawrence’s crypto-Jewish identity, as well as that of many of his highly individual characters, who embody the characteristics of Old Testament figures, and in so doing infuse a patriarchal strength and divine “religious” sublimity into civilized life. Lawrence’s claims about the self-sacrificing influence of Christianity on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, on the other hand, demonstrate how this influence carries over into the submission of the subject and the decline of Western Civilization. The book extrapolates this decline into a critique of the modern-day left-wing ideology that appropriates the self-abnegating individual to its collectivist ends. In responding agonistically to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Lawrence claims a far more complete, vital, and salubrious “consciousness” and a Weltanschauung that makes for greater, more fulfilling “life” thanks to the inner strength, psychic and sexual power of the Lawrentian “Self Supreme.” The book will appeal to Lawrence and Shakespeare scholars and enthusiasts who wish to appreciate Lawrence and Shakespeare as supremely profound writers and thinkers. Its unique demonstration of Bloomian literary theory makes it come poignantly alive for both graduate students and college professors.

Literature and Western Civilization

Author : David Daiches,Anthony Thorlby
Publisher : London : Aldus
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Literature
ISBN : UOM:39015010908757

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Shakespeare and Appropriation

Author : Christy Desmet,Robert Sawyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134622610

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Shakespeare and Appropriation by Christy Desmet,Robert Sawyer Pdf

The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it. Contemporary readers and writers continue to exploit Shakespeare's cultural afterlife in a vivid and creative way. This fascinating collection of original essays shows how writers' efforts to imitate, contradict, compete with, and reproduce Shakespeare keep him in the cultural conversation. The essays: * analyze the methods and motives of Shakespearean appropriation * investigate theoretically the return of the repressed author in discussions of Shakespeare's cultural function * put into dialogue theoretical and literary responses to Shakespeare's cultural authority * analyze works ranging from nineteenth century to the present, and genres ranging from poetry and the novel to Disney movies.

So Richly Spun

Author : Paul Altrocchi,Hank Whittemore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1440123934

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So Richly Spun by Paul Altrocchi,Hank Whittemore Pdf

Few are aware that the true identity of William Shakespeare represents Western Civilization's greatest mystery. Even fewer realize that the commonly accepted authorship of William Shaksper of Stratford, who was illiterate, is a complete hoax manufactured by England's most powerful politicians. The hoax survived largely unscathed until 1920 when J. Thomas Looney's brilliant book, Shakespeare Identified, plucked Edward de Vere out of historical obscurity and introduced him to the world as the real Shakespeare. Fighting the astonishing power of Conventional Wisdom, de Vereans have steadily built their case through solid research in the past ninety years. This book series salvages fascinating, neglected authorship material which repeatedly and convincingly shows that Edward de Vere was the uniquely creative genius who wrote under the coerced pen name of William Shakespeare.