Through careful interpretative essays on Greek poets, Shakespeare, and the Hebrew Bible, Athens, Arden, Jerusalem explores fundamental questions about God, human nature, and the political order. The collection of essays addresses topics ranging from friendship and marriage to sovereignty and tyranny, from piety and sin to comedy and contemplation.
Through careful interpretative essays on Greek poets, Shakespeare, and the Hebrew Bible, Athens, Arden, Jerusalem explores fundamental questions about God, human nature, and the political order. The collection of essays addresses topics ranging from friendship and marriage to sovereignty and tyranny, from piety and sin to comedy and contemplation.
Paul T. Wilford is assistant professor of political science at Boston College. Kate Havard is a writer, research analyst, and theater critic in Washington, D.C.
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1: Professor or Friend? On the Intention and Manner of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Leon R. Kass Chapter 2: Schiller's "Wily Odysseus"-A Poetic Hint- by Gisela Berns Chapter 3: Recognizing Odysseus: The Role of Signs in Odyssey 19-23 by Margaret Kirby Chapter 4: Logos and Voice in Sophocles' Ajax by Arlene Saxonhouse Chapter 5: Civic Friendship in the Philoctetes by Paul Ludwig Chapter 6. Defeat into Victory: The Strategy of Odysseus in Sophocles' Ajax and Philoctetes by Adam Schulman Chapter 7: Pindar's Wisdom: Terror at the Edge Victory Joy at the Center by William Mullen Chapter 8. Lady Macbeth: The Tyrant's Wife by Eva Brann Chapter 9. Guarding the Salt-Water Girdle: Lovers and Kings in Cymbeline by Kate Havard Chapter 10: Falstaff Riseth Up by Louis Petrich Chapter 11. What Makes a Kingdom? Plants Poetry and Politics in Richard II by Paul Wilford Chapter 12: Reason in Madness or Madness in Reason? On the Political Interstices of King Lear by Jeff Smith Chapter 13: Antony and Cleopatra: Antony's Return to Egypt by Pamela Kraus Chapter 14. Philosophy (and Athens) in Decay: Timon of Athens by Jan H. Blits Chapter 15: Woman and Nature: The Female Drama in the Book of Genesis by Ronna Burger Chapter 16. The Life and Death of Aaron the Priest by Robert Sacks Chapter 17. Beyond Sighing and Swooning: Love in the Book of Ruth by Alan Rubenstein Chapter 18: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Hebraic Strain of American Thought by Wilfred McClay
Chapter 1: Professor or Friend? On the Intention and Manner of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Leon R. Kass Chapter 2: Schiller's "Wily Odysseus"-A Poetic Hint- by Gisela Berns Chapter 3: Recognizing Odysseus: The Role of Signs in Odyssey 19-23 by Margaret Kirby Chapter 4: Logos and Voice in Sophocles' Ajax by Arlene Saxonhouse Chapter 5: Civic Friendship in the Philoctetes by Paul Ludwig Chapter 6. Defeat into Victory: The Strategy of Odysseus in Sophocles' Ajax and Philoctetes by Adam Schulman Chapter 7: Pindar's Wisdom: Terror at the Edge Victory Joy at the Center by William Mullen Chapter 8. Lady Macbeth: The Tyrant's Wife by Eva Brann Chapter 9. Guarding the Salt-Water Girdle: Lovers and Kings in Cymbeline by Kate Havard Chapter 10: Falstaff Riseth Up by Louis Petrich Chapter 11. What Makes a Kingdom? Plants Poetry and Politics in Richard II by Paul Wilford Chapter 12: Reason in Madness or Madness in Reason? On the Political Interstices of King Lear by Jeff Smith Chapter 13: Antony and Cleopatra: Antony's Return to Egypt by Pamela Kraus Chapter 14. Philosophy (and Athens) in Decay: Timon of Athens by Jan H. Blits Chapter 15: Woman and Nature: The Female Drama in the Book of Genesis by Ronna Burger Chapter 16. The Life and Death of Aaron the Priest by Robert Sacks Chapter 17. Beyond Sighing and Swooning: Love in the Book of Ruth by Alan Rubenstein Chapter 18: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Hebraic Strain of American Thought by Wilfred McClay
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