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Shakespeare's Humanism Headlam Wells Hardback Cambridge University Press

Shakespeare's Humanism

This book argues that the idea of a universal human nature was as important to Shakespeare as it was to every other Renaissance writer.

Robin Headlam Wells (Author)

9780521824385, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 December 2005

290 pages

23.5 x 16 x 2.3 cm, 0.6 kg

Renaissance humanists believed that if you want to build a just society you must begin with the facts of human nature. This book argues that the idea of a universal human nature was as important to Shakespeare as it was to every other Renaissance writer. In doing so it questions the central principle of post-modern Shakespeare criticism. Postmodernists insist that the notion of defining a human essence was alien to Shakespeare and his contemporaries; as radical anti-essentialists, the Elizabethans were, in effect, postmodernists before their time. In challenging this claim Shakespeare's Humanism shows that for Shakespeare, as for every other humanist writer in this pe]

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Shakespeare's Humanism

This book argues that the idea of a universal human nature was as important to Shakespeare as it was to every other Renaissance writer.

Robin Headlam Wells (Author)

9780521824385, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 December 2005

290 pages

23.5 x 16 x 2.3 cm, 0.6 kg

Renaissance humanists believed that if you want to build a just society you must begin with the facts of human nature. This book argues that the idea of a universal human nature was as important to Shakespeare as it was to every other Renaissance writer. In doing so it questions the central principle of post-modern Shakespeare criticism. Postmodernists insist that the notion of defining a human essence was alien to Shakespeare and his contemporaries; as radical anti-essentialists, the Elizabethans were, in effect, postmodernists before their time. In challenging this claim Shakespeare's Humanism shows that for Shakespeare, as for every other humanist writer in this pe]

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Shakespeare's Humanism

This book argues that the idea of a universal human nature was as important to Shakespeare as it was to every other Renaissance writer.

Robin Headlam Wells (Author)

9780521824385, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 December 2005

290 pages

23.5 x 16 x 2.3 cm, 0.6 kg

Renaissance humanists believed that if you want to build a just society you must begin with the facts of human nature. This book argues that the idea of a universal human nature was as important to Shakespeare as it was to every other Renaissance writer. In doing so it questions the central principle of post-modern Shakespeare criticism. Postmodernists insist that the notion of defining a human essence was alien to Shakespeare and his contemporaries; as radical anti-essentialists, the Elizabethans were, in effect, postmodernists before their time. In challenging this claim Shakespeare's Humanism shows that for Shakespeare, as for every other humanist writer in this pe]

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