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With modesty and conviction, this edition offers a viewpoint seldomly considered: an unusual and exceptionally clear insight into Shakespeare’s philosophy. Appreciating the danger Shakespeare faced in writing at a time of major religious intolerance, this fresh examination demonstrates how subtly his plays allegorically explore aspects of the perennial philosophy. In doing so, it argues, Shakespeare raises the fundamental question of ethics. Both thought provoking and persuasive, this book also contrasts Hamlet with Measure for Measure and Othello with The Winter’s Tale in order to expose the dilemmas that confront its heroes.

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John Vyvyan, a Shakespearean scholar of note, was offered a visiting lectureship at the State University of New York. He is the author of Shakespeare and Platonic Beauty and Shakespeare and the Rose of Love.
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"This is a welcome re-issue of a book which will send many readers back to Shakespeare's plays with fresh vision and clearer understanding. . . . The most original book about Shakespeare I have ever read." —New Classics (September 2011)

"Original and stimulating . . . . Mr Vyvyan’s thesis is important and serious: serious in the sense that his reading of the plays and his supporting reading into Shakespeare’s climate of ideas is deep, connected and wide."  —Times Literary Supplement

"More perceptive and convincing than a great deal that has ever been written on the subject . . . close and attentive scholarship . . . shrewd and ingenious observations."  —A. L. Rowse, Daily Telegraph

"The most original book about Shakespeare I have ever read."  —Christopher Booker, author, The Real Global Warming Disaster

"– a volume which for its breadth, clarity, depth and insight stands out as a truly masterful study of Shakespeare." –Temenos Academy Review 2012

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  • PublisherShepheard-Walwyn
  • Publication date2011
  • ISBN 10 0856832847
  • ISBN 13 9780856832840
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages224
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