The concept of the just war poses one of the most important ethical
questions to date. Can war ever be justified and, if so, how? When
is a cause of war proportional to its costs and who must be held
responsible? The monograph Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare
demonstrates that the necessary moral evaluation of these questions
is not restricted to the philosophical moral and political
discourse. This analysis of Shakespeare's plays, which focuses on
the histories, tragedies and Roman plays in chronological order,
brings to light that the drama includes an elaborate and complex
debate of the ethical issues of warfare. The plays that feature in
this analysis range from Henry VI to Coriolanus and they are
analysed according to the three Aquinian principles of legitimate
authority, just cause and right intention. Also extending the
principles of analysis to more modern notions of responsibility,
proportionality and the jus in bello-presupposition, this monograph
shows that just war theory constitutes a dominant theoretical
approach to war in the Shakespearean canon.
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