Reading Shakespeare through Philosophy - Peter Kishore Saval

Reading Shakespeare through Philosophy advocates that the beauty of Shakespearean drama is inseparable from its philosophical power. Shakespeare's plays make demands on us even beyond our linguistic attention and historical empathy: they require thinking and the concepts of philosophy can provide us with tools to aid us in that thinking. This volume examines how philosophy can help us to re-imagine Shakespeare's treatment of individuality character and destiny particularly at certain moments in a play when a character's relationship to space or time becomes an enigma to us. The author focuses on the dramatization of seemingly magical relationships between the individual and the cosmos exploring and rethinking the meanings of 'individual' 'cosmos' and 'magic' through a conceptually acute reading of Shakespeare's plays. This book draws upon a variety of thinkers including Plato Aristotle Leibniz and Kant in search of a revitalized philosophical criticism of Julius Caesar Love's Labor's Lost The Merchant of Venice Timon of Athens and Twelfth Night.

TITLE: Reading Shakespeare through Philosophy

AUTHOR: Peter Kishore Saval

SKU: 9780415709026

PUBLISHER: Taylor & Francis Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 13/01/2014

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 182

BINDING: Hardback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 152 mm x 229 mm

WEIGHT: 386 gr