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Shakespeare's Ideas: More Things in Heaven and Earth

ISBN: 978-1-4051-6796-3
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248 pages
August 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgements ix

1 A Natural Philosopher 1

2 Lust in Action
Shakespeare's Ideas on Sex and Gender 15

3 What is Honour?
Shakespeare's Ideas on Politics and Political Theory 42

4 Hold the Mirror Up to Nature
Shakespeare's Ideas on Writing and Acting 74

5 What Form of Prayer Can Serve My Turn?
Shakespeare’s Ideas on Religious Controversy and Issues of Faith 106

6 Is Man No More Than This?
Shakespeare's Ideas on Scepticism, Doubt, Stoicism, Pessimism, Misanthropy 143

7 Here Our Play Has Ending
Ideas of Closure in the Late Plays 177

8 Credo 213

Further Reading 218

Index 227

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