Shakespeare's Folly: Philosophy, Humanism, Critical Theory

By Sam Gilchrist Hall

Book Overview

This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare's drama. The discourse of folly's wordplay, jubilant ironies, and vertiginous paradoxes furnish Shakespeare with a way of understanding that lays bare the hypocrisies and absurdities of the serious world. It is the first study of its k

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367877910
• ISBN13: 9780367877910
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"