{"product_id":"shakespeares-virtuous-theatre-power-capacity-and-the-good-9781474499040","title":"Shakespeare's Virtuous Theatre: Power, Capacity and the Good","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays explores how the Shakespearean drama enacts ancient virtues and conceptualises new ones in complex fictional scenarios that test virtues for their continuing value. Contributors approach the virtues as a source of imaginative, affective and intellectual nourishment and consider how Shakespeare's art increases our capacity for new pursuits of the good. Examining Shakespeare's virtuous theatre in tragic, comic and romance modes and from ethical, theatrical and political perspectives, this volume establishes virtue as a framework for a socially, environmentally and spiritually renewed literary criticism. Contributors balance historical depth and philosophical insight with the art of close reading as they contemplate the dynamic field of virtue - embodied, responsive, energetic and dynamic - as it ebbs and flows across time, among multiple wisdom traditions, and in the entangled lives and troubled circumstances of Shakespeare's characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKent Lehnhof is professor of English at Chapman University. He is author of some two dozen articles on early modern literature and culture and is co-editor (along with Moshe Gold and Sandor Goodhart) of the essay collection \u003ci\u003eOf Levinas and Shakespeare: \"To See Another Thus\"\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). His articles have appeared in such journals as \u003ci\u003eShakespeare Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRenaissance Drama\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEnglish Literary Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eELH\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSEL\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eModern Philology\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCriticism\u003c\/i\u003e. He is currently working on a book-length study of vocality and ethics in Shakespeare's late plays. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulia Reinhard Lupton is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author or co-author of five books, including \u003ci\u003eShakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eThinking with Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), and \u003ci\u003eCitizen-Saints\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). She has edited or co-edited many volumes and special issues, including \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Virtue: A Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e (with Donovan Sherman), and \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Virtuous Theatre: Power, Capacity, and the Good\u003c\/i\u003e (with Kent Lehnhof and Carolyn Sale), \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Hospitality\u003c\/i\u003e (with David Goldstein), and \u003ci\u003eFace to Face with Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e (with Matthew Smith). She is a former Guggenheim Fellow and a former Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarolyn Sale is associate professor of English at the University of Alberta. Her work has appeared in journals including \u003ci\u003eELH\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRenaissance Drama\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eShakespeare Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as various essay collections including \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Judgment\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), \u003ci\u003eThe History of British Women's Writing, Volume 1, 1500-1610\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), and \u003ci\u003eThe Law in Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). She is completing the book manuscript 'The Literary Commons: The Common Law and the Writer in Early Modern England, 1528-1628'. Earlier work in the phenomenology of Shakespeare's theatre includes \"Eating Air, Feeling Smells: Hamlet's Theory of Performance,\" reprinted in \u003ci\u003eBloom's Modern Critical Interpretations: Hamlet\u003c\/i\u003e (2009).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50394719420690,"sku":"9781474499040","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7b3621bc-4e50-4a35-a5ff-dcd729662db2.jpg?v=1729014760","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shakespeares-virtuous-theatre-power-capacity-and-the-good-9781474499040","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}