Renaissance humanists believed that if you want to build a just
society you must begin with the facts of human nature. This book
argues that the idea of a universal human nature was as important
to Shakespeare as it was to every other Renaissance writer. In
doing so it questions the central principle of post-modern
Shakespeare criticism. Postmodernists insist that the notion of
defining a human essence was alien to Shakespeare and his
contemporaries; as radical anti-essentialists, the Elizabethans
were, in effect, postmodernists before their time. In challenging
this claim Shakespeare's Humanism shows that for Shakespeare, as
for every other humanist writer in this period, the key to all wise
action was 'the knowledge of our selves and our human condition'.
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