Kuzner, James,

Shakespeare as a way of life /James Kuzner. - First edition. - New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Shakespeare's Skeptical Practice and the Politics of Weakness -- 1. Ciceronian Skepticism and the Mind-Body Problem in Lucrece -- 2. "It stops me here": Love and Self-Control in Othello -- 3. The Winter's Tale: Faith in Law and the Law of Faith -- 4. Doubtful Freedom in The Tempest -- 5. Looking Two Ways at Once in Timon of Athens -- Epilogue: Shakespeare as a Way of Life.

Shakespeare is worth reading because his works help us to make epistemological weakness into a way of life. Kuzner shows how Shakespeare's works offer a means for coming to terms with basic uncertainties about freedom, the world's abundance, and the demands of love and social life.



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Electronic Books.

PR2976 / .S535 2016