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Autore |
Wainwright Michael |
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Titolo |
The Rational Shakespeare [[electronic resource] ] : Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship / / by Michael Wainwright |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
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[1st ed. 2018.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations |
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Soggetti |
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Literature—History and criticism |
Literature, Modern |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 |
Logic |
Literary History |
Shakespeare |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chapter 1 Peter Ramus and the Basis of Logic -- Chapter 2 Thomas Smith, Edward de Vere, and William Cecil -- Chapter 3 Peter Ramus, Edward de Oxford, and the Basis of Logic -- Chapter 4 Ramus’s Method -- Chapter 5 The Strengths and Weakness of Ramism -- Chapter 6 Introduction: Ramism and Game Theory -- Chapter 7 The Banker and His Player -- Chapter 8 Oxford, Ramus, and Love’s Labour’s Lost -- Chapter 9 Oxford, Ramus, and Hamlet, Prince of Denmark -- Chapter 10 Deadlock and the Prisoner’s Dilemma in King John -- Chapter 11 Assurance Games in Antony and Cleopatra (Part 1) -- Chapter 12 Assurance Games in Antony and Cleopatra (Part 2) -- Chapter 13 Chicken in King Henry V (Part 1) -- Chapter 14 Chicken in King Henry V (Part 2) -- Chapter 15 Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship examines William Shakespeare’s rationality from a Ramist perspective, linking that examination to the leading intellectuals of late humanism, and extending those links to the life of Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford. The application to |
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Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets of a game-theoretic hermeneutic, an interpretive approach that Ramism suggests but ultimately evades, strengthens these connections in further supporting the Oxfordian answer to the question of Shakespearean authorship. |
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