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Shakespearean Metaphysics (Hardcover, New)
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Shakespearean Metaphysics (Hardcover, New)
Series: Shakespeare Now!
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This title offers a fresh approach to the plays that suggests they
can be seen as metaphysical 'experiments' conducted in the medium
of drama.Metaphysics is usually associated with that part of the
philosophical tradition which asks about 'last things', questions
such as: How many substances are there in the world? Which is more
fundamental, quantity or quality? Are events prior to things, or do
they happen to those things? While he wasn't a philosopher,
Shakespeare was obviously interested in 'ultimates' of this sort.
Instead of probing these issues with argument, however, he did so
with plays. "Shakespearean Metaphysics" argues for Shakespeare's
inclusion within a metaphysical tradition that opposes empiricism
and Cartesian dualism.Through close readings of three major plays -
"The Tempest", "King Lear" and "Twelfth Night" - Witmore proposes
that Shakespeare's manner of depicting life on stage itself
constitutes an 'answer' to metaphysical questions raised by later
thinkers such as Spinoza, Bergson, and Whitehead. Each of these
readings shifts the interpretative frame around the plays in
radical ways; taken together they show the limits of our
understanding of theatrical play as an 'illusion' generated by the
physical circumstances of production."Shakespeare Now!" is a series
of short books that engage imaginatively and often provocatively
with the possibilities of Shakespeare's plays. It goes back to the
source - the most living language imaginable - and recaptures the
excitement, audacity and surprise of Shakespeare. It will return
you to the plays with opened eyes.
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