{"product_id":"shakespeare-against-war-pacifist-readings-9781399516211","title":"Shakespeare Against War: Pacifist Readings","description":"Whilst Shakespearean drama provides eloquent calls to war, more often than not these are undercut or outweighed by compelling appeals to peaceful alternatives conveyed through narrative structure, dramatic context and poetic utterance. Placing Shakespeare's works in the history of pacifist thought, Robert White argues that Shakespeare's plays consistently challenge appeals to heroism and revenge and reveal the brutal futility of war. White also examines Shakespeare's interest in the mental states of military officers when their ingrained training is tested in love relationships. In imagery and themes, war infiltrates love, with problematical consequences, reflected in Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies alike. Challenging a critical orthodoxy that military engagement in war is an inevitable and necessary condition, White draws analogies with the experience of modern warfare, showing the continuing relevance of Shakespeare's plays which deal with basic issues of war and peace that are still evident.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert White FAHA is Emeritus Winthrop Professor of English at the University of Western Australia and a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions 1100-1800. He has held a Fellowship at the Humanities Research Centre, ANU, an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship, and recently the Senior Visiting Research Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford. His publications are mainly in the field of early modern literature, especially Shakespeare, and also Romantic literature. Monographs include \u003ci\u003eKeats's Anatomy of Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh University Press, 2020); \u003ci\u003eJohn Keats: A Literary Life\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, revised ed. 2012); \u003ci\u003ePacifism in English Literature: Minstrels of Peace\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); \u003ci\u003eNatural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005); and \u003ci\u003eNatural Law in English Renaissance Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Others include \u003ci\u003eAvant-Garde Hamlet\u003c\/i\u003e (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015); \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Cinema of Love\u003c\/i\u003e (Manchester University Press, 2016); \u003ci\u003eAmbivalent Macbeth\u003c\/i\u003e (Sydney University Press, 2018); and \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream: Language and Writing\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury Arden Study, 2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50868926710034,"sku":"9781399516211","price":135.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_daef56d9-a697-4fc1-bbcb-bad9a4d86161.jpg?v=1737742798","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shakespeare-against-war-pacifist-readings-9781399516211","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}