SHAKESPEARE'S POLITICS by Allan David Bloom, Harry V. Jaffa ( 9780226060415 )

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Title:

SHAKESPEARE'S POLITICS

By:

Allan David Bloom, Harry V. Jaffa

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0226060411

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Pub. date:

1 December, 1996

Pages:

160

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Taking the classical view that the political shapes man's consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist. Shakespeare's work is once again seen as a recognized source for the serious study of moral and political problems.

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Taking the classical view that the political shapes man's consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist. He aims to recover Shakespeare's ideas and beliefs, and to make his work once again a recognized source for the serious study of moral and political problems. In essays looking at "Julius Caesar", "Othello", and "The Merchant of Venice" Bloom shows how Shakespeare presents a picture of man that does not assume privileged access for only literary criticism. With this claim, he argues that political philosophy offers a comprehensive framework within which the which the problems of the Shakespearean heroes can be viewed. In short, he argues that Shakespeare was an eminently political author.

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