Shakespeare and the Just War Tradition (Hardcover, New Ed)

Brought to light in this study is a connection between the treatment of war in Shakespeare's plays and the issue of the 'just war', which loomed large both in religious and in lay treatises of Shakespeare's time. The book re-reads Shakespeare's representations of war in light of both the changing historical and political contexts in which they were produced and of Shakespeare's possible connection with the culture and ideology of the European just war tradition. But to discuss Shakespeare's representations of war means, for Pugliatti, not simply to examine his work from a literary point of view or to historicize those representations in connection with the discourses (and the practice) of war which were produced in his time; it also means to consider or re-consider present-day debates for or against war and the kind of war ideology which is trying to assert itself in our time in light of the tradition which shaped those discourses and representations and which still substantiates our 'moral' view of war.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Paola Pugliatti
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	260
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7546-5927-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General
LSN:	0-7546-5927-5
Barcode:	9780754659273

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