Shakespeare’s Theater of Judgment

Six Keywords

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Kevin Curran, University of Lausanne) Curran, Kevin (Professor of Early Modern Literature

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Shakespeare's Theater of Judgment makes a case for the social and ethical importance of judgment in politics, law, art, and everyday life. It delves deep into the intellectual culture of Renaissance England and the dynamics of Shakespearean theater to recover a positive, collaborative, and future-oriented understanding of judgment, something largely lacking in contemporary social and philosophical discourse. Presenting a series of chapters organized around single keywords, the book enlists the help of Shakespeare to assemble a new lexicon for judgment, one that allows us to think and talk about our capacity for discernment in cooperative and community-making terms. Readers of Shakespeare's Theater of Judgment will come away with a clear and urgent sense of why judgment is an indispensable component of public life, and why theater offers a particularly powerful locale for cultivating it.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-09-30
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt464 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy
Antal sidor224
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399516365

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Among the innovations of the Elizabethan theaters – the first such purpose-built structures in England since the time of the ancient Roman occupation – was the introduction of the box office. Performers would no longer pass the hat at the end of a performance in the hope of a generous reward. Theatergoers would now pay in advance for their entertainment, whether they judged it to their liking or not. Then, as now, at a play’s end they demonstrated their judgment in the form of applause or noises of disapproval. In this innovative study, Kevin Curran has identified and explored a concept that shaped the experience of playwrights and audiences alike. He shows the extent to which judgment – critical, punitive, just, forgiving, loving – was central to Shakespeare’s imagination and his practice.