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Shakespeare, Montaigne, and classical reason
Holbrook, Peter
Holbrook, Peter
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[Extract] A long-standing assumption and justification of literary culture is that major authors offer readers ethical or political counsel: practical wisdom about fundamental dilemmas of human life. Poetry teaches as well as delights – “is full of virtue-breeding delightfulness”, as Sidney said (389). Shakespeare has been a prime site for the faith that major authors can provide us with advice on “how to live”: not infrequently is it taken for granted that the study of his works may comprise an education in moral, perhaps political, rationality.
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2014
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Book chapter
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Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics
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261-283
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Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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