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Virtue's own feature : Shakespeare and the virtue ethics tradition
- Title
- Virtue's own feature : Shakespeare and the virtue ethics tradition / David N. Beauregard.
- Author
- Beauregard, David N., 1937-
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR3007 .B43 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 260 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Using an historical approach, Virtue's Own Feature explores nine of Shakespeare's most successful works as representations of the passions, virtues, and vices as they are complexly and extensively set out by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. The work first undertakes to describe the late Elizabethan poetic of Sir Philip Sidney, which is demonstrated to be Shakespeare's poetic as well. Second, this study explores Shakespeare's plays in relation to the Aristotelian-Thomistic.
- Tradition of moral philosophy, one important branch of a major sixteenth-century philosophical tradition.
- Subjects
- Literature and morals
- 1500-1699
- Shakespeare, William
- Shakespeare, William, (1564-1616) > Morale
- Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Ethics
- History
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Renaissance > Dans la littérature
- Vertu dans la littérature
- Littérature et morale > 17e siècle
- Littérature et morale > 16e siècle
- Ethiek
- Rezeption
- Antike
- Tugend
- Laster
- Ethik
- Virtue in literature
- Ethics, Renaissance, in literature
- Ethics
- Virtues in literature
- Literature and morals > History > 17th century
- Literature and morals > History > 16th century
- Didactic drama, English > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-255) and index.
- Contents
- Elizabethan poetics and moral philosophy. Sidney's apology and Shakespeare's poetic -- "Aristotle and the rest" : the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of moral philosophy -- Images of the passions, virtues, and vices. The passions of the sensitive appetite anatomized : Venus and Adonis and the taming of the shrew -- Justice : virtue on trial in The Merchant of Venice and Hamlet -- Fortitude : death and honor in 1 Henry IV and Macbeth -- Temperance : lust and anger in Measure for measure and King Lear -- Prudence and the artist in The Tempest -- Epilogue: The mutual flame of love in "The Phoenix and Turtle" -- Appendix 1: The virtues and vices in Aristotle's Ethics -- Appendix 2: The virtues and vices in St. Thomas's Summa -- Appendix 3: The virtues and vices in John Case's Speculum moralium quaestionum -- Appendix 4: The virtues in Cicero's De Inventione.
- ISBN
- 0874135788
- 9780874135787
- LCCN
- 95005838
- OCLC
- ocm32013972
- 32013972
- SCSB-14645177
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library