ISBN10: 0802086055, ISBN13: 9780802086051, [publisher: Published by the University of Toronto Press, Toronto] Softcover , xi, 406 pages Reprint , an excellent copy in very good condition , pictoral card cover , 15 x 23 cms Paperback ISBN: 802086055
[Skipton, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]
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, xi, 406 pages Date: 2003. Published by the University of Toronto Press ISBN 0802086055 9780802086051 [GB]

Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press. New. Date: 2003. Paperback. 0802086055 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, like new, pristine, never opened - 406 pages. Book description: "This innovative work argues that Shakespeare was as great a philosopher as he was a poet, and that his greatness as a poet derived even more from his power as a thinker than from his genius for linguistic expression. Accordingly, Leon Craig's interpretation of the plays - focusing primarily on Macbeth and King Lear, but including extensive comments on Othello, The Winter's Tale, and Measure for Measure - are intended to demonstrate what can be gained from reading Shakespeare 'philosophically. 'Shakespeare, Craig argues, had a persistent fascination with the relationship between politics and philosophy, and even more precisely, with the idea of a philosophical ruler. Macbeth and King Lear are given detailed exposition for the special light they cast on tensions between philosophy and politics, knowledge and power. They show how the pursuit of an adequate understanding of certain practical issues - transient yet recurring - necessarily leads to considerations that far transcend the particular circumstances in which these practical problems arise. Metaphysics, cosmology, and man's confrontation with nature, were made dramatically manife ...