LEADER 03207nam 22005051 450 001 9910788476803321 005 20200514202323.0 010 $a1-4725-5506-6 010 $a1-4411-2024-6 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472555069 035 $a(CKB)3230000000213834 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25702545 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1748158 035 $a(OCoLC)880455687 035 $a(UkLoBP)bpp09258692 035 $a(EXLCZ)993230000000213834 100 $a20150326d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aPassion, prudence, and virtue in Shakespearean drama /$fUnhae Park Langis 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cContinuum International Publishing Group,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (180 p.) 225 1 $aContinuum Shakespeare studies 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 $a1-4411-8801-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aVirtue, passion, and prudence in early modern England -- The taming of the shrew: woman on top, prudence over cleverness -- Othello: passion's peril in the marital traverse from two to one -- Living well: virtue, means, and ends in All's well that ends well -- "Heavenly mingle" in Antony and Cleopatra: rare virtue at the nexus of sex and politics -- Coriolanus: inordinate passions and powers in personal and political governance. 330 $a"Virtue, as a Renaissance ideal, was largely conceived as a rational governing of unruly passions. Revising this early modern commonplace, this study shows how Shakespeare dramatizes a discerning Aristotelian conception of virtue as a touchstone of excellence: executing just action at the best time, in the best way, and for the best end within the contingent world. Not only situational, Aristotelian virtue is, moreover, integrative, harmonizing passion and reason, will and understanding, towards personal and civil good. Yet as a surprising backfire on the misogynist streak in Aristotle, the resistant female characters in Shakespeare emerge as the exemplars of ethical action, appropriating traditionally male-inflected virtue. At the junction of ethical, psycho-physiological, cultural and gender studies, this approach of prudential psychology bridges an apparent but needless divergence of critical focus between affect and cognition, ethics and prudential action. Firmly situated in new historicist practices, prudential psychology goes beyond narrow discourses of power into the all-encompassing arena of virtue as the complete life, which recommends an interdisciplinary approach for a fuller understanding of Shakespeare's works."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 410 0$aContinuum Shakespeare studies. 606 $aPrudence in literature 606 $aVirtue in literature 615 0$aPrudence in literature. 615 0$aVirtue in literature. 676 $a822.3/3 700 $aLangis$b Unhae Park$01514562 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788476803321 996 $aPassion, prudence, and virtue in Shakespearean drama$93749776 997 $aUNINA