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Cesare Ripa, Iconologia: or, Moral Emblems (1709)
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“Shakespeare and Ethics”
Volume IV: 2011
Papers selected for the fourth volume investigate questions of ethics in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Ethics, here, are thought of in a broad sense, to include issues of gender, race, class, culture, religion, labor, economics, justice, environmentalism, and nature. For a full-length pdf version of this volume, click here. To purchase a perfect-bound print version of this volume, click here.
html pdf Time Served in Prison Shakespeare
Niels Herold, Oakland University
html pdf Hamlet’s Hard-Boiled Ethics
James A. Lewin, Shepherd University
html pdf “Much Virtue in If”: Ethics and Uncertainty in Hamlet
and As You Like It
David Summers, Capital University
html pdf The Dangers of Playing House: Celia’s Subversive Role
in As You Like It
Allison Grant, The University of Akron
html pdf Tortured Calculations: Body Economies in Shakespeare’s
Cultures of Honor
Brandon Polite, Knox College
html pdf “How this World is Given to Lying!”: Orson Welles’s
Deconstruction of Historiographies in Chimes at Midnight
Jeffrey Yeager, West Virginia University
html pdf Lexical Dichotomy and Ethics in Macbeth
Lindsey Simon-Jones, The Pennsylvania State University, Fayette