| Contents |
Introduction: Learning from Shakespeare, poet of Western civilization -- Shakespeare on love (and marriage) -- Juliet's nominalism and the failure of love -- The racial "other" in The merchant of Venice and Othello -- Shakespeare's history plays and the Erasmian Christian prince -- Freedom and tyranny in Julius Caesar and Hamlet -- "Light thickens" : freedom and tyranny in Macbeth -- Hope and despair in King Lear : the gospel and the crisis of natural law -- The tempest in the academic teapot. |
| Abstract |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Young, R. V., 1947- Shakespeare and the idea of Western civilization Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2022] 9780813235257 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2021062346 |
| ISBN | 9780813235240 |
| ISBN | 0813235243 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
