TY  - BOOK
AU  - Habib,Khalil M.
AU  - Hebert Jr,L.Joseph
AU  - Hebert,L.Joseph,Jr
AU  - Alulis,Joseph
AU  - Alvis,J.David
AU  - Bradizza,Luigi
AU  - Burns,Timothy
AU  - Holloway,Carson
AU  - Nichols,Mary P.
AU  - Schaeffer,Denise
TI  - The Soul of Statesmanship: Shakespeare on Nature, Virtue, and Political Wisdom
T2  - Politics, Literature, and Film Series
SN  - 9781498543279
AV  - PR2976 .S685 2018 
U1  - 822.3/3 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
KW  - Shakespeare, William,-1564-1616-Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Tragedy and the Folly of the Ruler -- 1 One That Loved Not Wisely But Too Well -- 2 Macbeth -- 3 Wings as Swift as Love -- Part II: Comedy and the Reign of Wisdom -- 4 Both False and True -- 5 Jurisprudence in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice -- 6 Christian Ethics and Political Moderation in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure -- Part III: History and Rule as the Measure of Statesmen -- 7 The Bastard in King John -- or, On the Need for a Unified English Nation -- 8 To Make High Majesty Look Like Itself -- 9 This Blessed Plot -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors
N2  - The authors of this volume explore the Bard's dramatization of perennial questions about human nature, moral virtue, and statesmanship. Reading his plays as works of philosophical literature enhances our understanding of political life and provides a source of advice and inspiration for the citizens and statesmen of today and tomorrow
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ER  -