Shakespeare And The Just War Tradition

Author : Paola Pugliatti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Paola Pugliatti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317056409

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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 : 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 : Robert White
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781399516235

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Shakespeare Against War by Robert White Pdf

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 : Patrick Gray
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Charles Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136677151

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More Than Just War by Charles Jones Pdf

This book raises questions about the just war tradition through a critical examination of its revival and by juxtaposing it with a literary phenomenology of war. Recent public debate about war has leaned heavily on a just-war tradition dating back many centuries. This book examines the recent revival of that tradition in the United States and Britain, arguing that it is less coherent and comprehensive as an approach to the ethical issues arising from war than is generally supposed, and that it is inconsistent in important ways with the theology on which it was originally based. A second line of criticism is mounted through close readings of modern texts in English - from Britain, Australia and the USA – that together constitute a more subjective, bottom-up understanding of the moral dilemmas of military life. In this second tradition the task of representing war is seen as more problematic, and its rationality more questionable, than in just war discourse. Works by William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, James Fennimore Cooper, Stephen Crane, John Buchan, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, Tim O’Brien and Kurt Vonnegut are featured. The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of security studies, military studies, theology and international relations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : WISC:89080389927

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WLA by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bruce E. Altschuler,Michael A. Genovese
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317252184

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Shakespeare and Politics by Bruce E. Altschuler,Michael A. Genovese Pdf

William Shakespeare, more than any other author, was able to capture the essence of human nature in all its manifestations. His political plays offer enduring insights into our humanity, our vanity, our noble and baser drives, what makes us great, and what makes us loathsome. He tells us about ourselves and about our world. This volume gleans valuable lessons from the writings of William Shakespeare and applies them to contemporary politics. Original chapters covering over a dozen different plays take up perennial political themes including power and leadership, corruption and virtue, war and peace, evil and liberty, persuasion and polarization, and empire and global overreach.Features of the text:

Author : Amy Lidster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009356060

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Wartime Shakespeare by Amy Lidster Pdf

First transhistorical monograph to examine and theorize how Shakespeare has been mobilized in performance during wartime.

Author : Ronda Arab,Laurie Ellinghausen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031355646

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Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama by Ronda Arab,Laurie Ellinghausen Pdf

Defining class broadly as an identity categorization based on status, wealth, family, bloodlines, and occupation, Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama e xplores class as a complicated, contingent phenomenon modified by a wider range of social categories apart from those defining terms, including, but not limited to, race, gender, religion, and sexuality. This collection of essays – featuring a range of international contributors – explores a broad range of questions about the intersectional factors influencing class status in early modern England, including how cultural behaviors and non-class social categories affected status and social mobility, in what ways hegemonies of elite prerogatives could be disrupted or entrenched by the myriad of intersectional factors that informed social identity, and how class position informed the embodied experience and expression of affect, gender, sexuality, and race as well as relationships to place, space, land, and the natural and civic worlds.

Author : Amy Lidster,Sonia Massai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316517482

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Shakespeare at War by Amy Lidster,Sonia Massai Pdf

The first material history of how Shakespeare has been 'recruited' in wartime.

Author : Laurie Ellinghausen
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603293013

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Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's English History Plays by Laurie Ellinghausen Pdf

Shakespeare's history plays make up nearly a third of his corpus and feature iconic characters like Falstaff, the young Prince Hal, and Richard III--as well as unforgettable scenes like the storming of Harfleur. But these plays also present challenges for teachers, who need to help students understand shifting dynastic feuds, manifold concepts of political power, and early modern ideas of the body politic, kingship, and nationhood. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," introduces instructors to the many editions of the plays, the wealth of contextual and critical writings available, and other resources. Part 2, "Approaches," contains essays on topics as various as masculinity and gender, using the plays in the composition classroom, and teaching the plays through Shakespeare's own sources, film, television, and the Web. The essays help instructors teach works that are poetically and emotionally rich as well as fascinating in how they depict Shakespeare's vision of his nation's past and present.

Author : Irene Rima Makaryk,Marissa McHugh
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781442644021

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Shakespeare and the Second World War by Irene Rima Makaryk,Marissa McHugh Pdf

Shakespeare's works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre. The Second World War presents a fascinating case study of this phenomenon: most, if not all, of its combatants have laid claim to Shakespeare and have called upon his work to convey their society's self-image. In wartime, such claims frequently brought to the fore a crisis of cultural identity and of competing ownership of this 'universal' author. Despite this, the role of Shakespeare during the Second World War has not yet been examined or documented in any depth. Shakespeare and the Second World War provides the first sustained international, collaborative incursion into this terrain. The essays demonstrate how the wide variety of ways in which Shakespeare has been recycled, reviewed, and reinterpreted from 1939–1945 are both illuminated by and continue to illuminate the War today.

Author : Heather Hirschfeld
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191043451

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy by Heather Hirschfeld Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises. It engages with perennial, yet still urgent questions raised by the comedies and looks at them from a range of new perspectives that represent the most recent methodological approaches to Shakespeare, genre, and early modern drama. Several chapters take up firmly established topics of inquiry such Shakespeare's source materials, gender and sexuality, hetero- and homoerotic desire, race, and religion, and they reformulate these topics in the materialist, formalist, phenomenological, or revisionist terms of current scholarship and critical debate. Others explore subjects that have only relatively recently become pressing concerns for sustained scholarly interrogation, such as ecology, cross-species interaction, and humoral theory. Some contributions, informed by increasingly sophisticated approaches to the material conditions and embodied experience of theatrical practice, speak to a resurgence of interest in performance, from Shakespeare's period through the first decades of the twenty-first century. Others still investigate distinct sets of plays from unexpected and often polemical angles, noting connections between the comedies under inventive, unpredicted banners such as the theology of adultery, early modern pedagogy, global exploration, or monarchical rule. The Handbook situates these approaches against the long history of criticism and provides a valuable overview of the most up-to-date work in the field.

Author : Nicholas de Somogyi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351900706

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Shakespeare’s Theatre of War by Nicholas de Somogyi Pdf

The period between 1585 (when Elizabeth formally committed her military support to the Dutch wars against Spain) and 1604 (when James at last brought it to an end) was one in which English life was preoccupied by the menace and actuality of war. The same period spans English drama’s coming of age, from Tamburlaine to Hamlet. In this thought-provoking book, Nick de Somogyi draws on a wide range of contemporary military literature (news-letters and war-treatises, maps and manuals), to demonstrate how deeply wartime experience influenced the production and reception of Elizabethan theatre. In a series of vivid parallels, the roles of soldier and actor, the setting of battlefield and stage, and the context of playhouse and muster are shown to have been rooted in the common experience of war. The local armoury served as a props department; the stage as a military lecture-hall. News from the front line has always been shrouded in the fog of war. Shakespeare’s Rumour is here seen as kindred to such equally dubious messengers as his Armado, Falstaff or Pistol; soldiers have always told tall tales, military ghost-stories that are here shown to have seeped into such narratives as The Spanish Tragedy and Henry V. This book concludes with a sustained account of Hamlet, a play which both dramatises the Elizabethan context of war-fever, and embodies in its three variant texts the war and peace that shaped its production. By affording scrutiny to each of its title’s components, Shakespeare’s Theatre of War provides a compelling argument for reassessing the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries within the enduring context of the military culture and wartime experience of his age.