Shakespeare The Reformation And The Interpreting Self Roberta Kwan by Roberta Kwan 9781474461948, 9781474461962, 1474461948, 1474461964 instant download after payment.

Reconceptualises Shakespeare’s representations of selfhood by drawing on a long history of the interpreting self

• Provides a groundbreaking contribution to the expanding field of study situated at the intersections of Shakespeare, religion and philosophy
• Illuminates Shakespeare’s indebtedness to Reformation hermeneutics, that is, the Reformers’ configuring of the interpreting self
• Offers a distinctive vantage point on our sense that Shakespeare’s plays speak to present-day human experience by employing a critical framework that shows the influence of the Reformers’ hermeneutics on modern philosophical hermeneutics
• Presents innovative readings of Shakespeare’s ‘problem plays’ –　Hamlet,　Troilus and Cressida,　Measure for Measure　and　All’s Well That Ends Well　– and their viewpoints on human subjectivity

We share with Shakespeare, it seems, the assumption that to be human is to know through interpretation. This innovative study examines Shakespeare’s compelling dramatisations of the interpreting self through the lens of a hermeneutical tradition that spans culture-shaping early modern religious beliefs about human knowing and pivotal philosophical ideas of our age. What is it to be an interpreting self?　Shakespeare, the Reformation and the Interpreting Self　offers fresh perspectives on critical questions about the self’s finitude, agency, motivations, self-knowledge and ethical relation to others; questions that were of great relevance in Shakespeare’s England and which continue to frame present-day dilemmas and debates about human experience and human being.