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100			_aNuttall, A.D.
245			_aShakespeare the thinker
260			_bYale University Press, _c2007 _aLondon :
300			_axi, 428 p. ; _bill., _c23 cm
365			_b19.95 _c$ _d90.60
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aCertain questions engross Shakespeare from his early plays to the late romances: the nature of motive, cause, personal identity and relation, the proper status of imagination, ethics and subjectivity, language and its capacity to occlude and to communicate. Yet Shakespeare's thought, Nuttall demonstrates, is anything but static. The plays keep returning to, modifying, and complicating the playwright's preoccupations. The author does not limit discussion to moments of crucial intellection but gives himself ample space in which to get to the distinctive essence of each work." "Much recent historicist criticism has tended to "flatten" Shakespeare by confining him to the thought-cliches of his time, and this in its turn has led to an implicitly patronizing view of him as unthinkingly racist, sexist, and so on. Nuttall shows us that, on the contrary, Shakespeare proves to be more intelligent and perceptive than his twenty-first-century readers.
650			_a Intellectual Life
650			_aLearning and scholarship
650			_aCriticism and interpretation
650			_aStoics and Sceptics
650			_aMoralist
700			_aKnowledge and learning
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