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Not Shakespeare
Burlesque has been a powerful and enduring weapon in the critique of legitimate Shakespearean culture by a seemingly illegitimate popular culture....
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Kant’s Cosmopolitan Theory of Law and Peace
Kant is widely acknowledged for his critique of theoretical reason, his universalistic ethics, and his aesthetics. Scholars, however, often ignore...
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Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?
Are humans composed of a body and a nonmaterial mind or soul, or are we purely physical beings? Opinion is sharply divided over this issue. In this...
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Plato’s Meno
Given its brevity, Plato’s Meno covers an astonishingly wide array of topics: politics, education, virtue, definition, philosophical method,...
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Thomas Hardy on Screen
The novels of Thomas Hardy have often been regarded as cinematic in their scope and power, and they have inspired some of the most absorbing...
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Shakespeare and Dickens
Shakespeare and Dickens traces Dickens’ own interest in Shakespeare from childhood, not only through his own reading and performance but also...
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The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
More than thirty eminent scholars from nine different countries have contributed to The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy - the most...
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Propertius: Elegies Book IV
Propertius’ fourth book is his most challenging and innovative. It disrupts genre; dislocates time and order; and meditates on gender, perception...
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Shakespeare and Multiplicity
Brian Gibbons presents the idea of multiplicity as a way of understanding the form and style of Shakespeare’s plays: composed of many different...
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Kant’s Cosmopolitan Theory of Law and Peace
Kant is widely acknowledged for his critique of theoretical reason, his universalistic ethics, and his aesthetics. Scholars, however, often ignore...
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Propertius: Elegies Book IV
Propertius’ fourth book is his most challenging and innovative. It disrupts genre; dislocates time and order; and meditates on gender, perception...
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Jonson, Shakespeare and Early Modern Virgil
In this wide-ranging and original study, Margaret Tudeau-Clayton examines how Virgil - the poet as well as his texts - was mediated in early modern...
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Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Religion
In his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche observes that Greek tragedy gathered people together as a community in the sight of their gods,...
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Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
"Sophocles … created a masterpiece that in the eyes of posterity has overshadowed every other achievement in the field of ancient drama...
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Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Religion
In his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche observes that Greek tragedy gathered people together as a community in the sight of their gods,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley
George Berkeley is one of the greatest and most influential modern philosophers. In defending the immaterialism for which he is most famous, he...
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Mary Astell
Philosopher, theologian, educational theorist, feminist and political pamphleteer, Mary Astell was an important figure in the history of ideas of the...
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Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare’s Time
Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare’s Time examines the nature of commercial relations among the theatre companies in London during the...
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Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor
Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor explores the German philosopher’s response to the intellectual debates sparked by the publication of Charles...
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Shakespeare, Memory and Performance
"Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe." Hamlet’s lines pun on the globe as both his...
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Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson
Daniel Carey examines afresh the fundamental debate within the Enlightenment about human diversity. Three central figures - Locke, Shaftesbury, and...
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Shakespeare and Social Dialogue
Shakespeare and Social Dialogue deals with Shakespeare’s language and the rhetoric of Elizabethan letters. Moving beyond claims about the language...
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Analyzing Shakespeare’s Action
In this book, Charles and Elaine Hallett invite the reader to follow the actions of Shakespeare’s plays. They show that the conventional division...
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Norms in Human Development
The distinction between norms and facts is long-standing in providing a challenge for psychology. Norms exist as directives, commands, rules, customs...
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