| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Cambridge Elements: Elements in Shakespeare Performance |
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Cambridge elements.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Stoicism as Performance in Much Ado About Nothing: Acting Indifferently; Contents; 1 Why Truth?; 2 Why Representation?; 3 A Certain Recklessness; 4 No More Than Reason; References |
| Summary |
This Element demonstrates how Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing models an understanding of the philosophy of Stoicism as performance, rather than as intellectual doctrine. To do this, it explores how, despite many early modern cultural institutions' suppression of Stoicism's theatrical capacity, a performative understanding lived on in one of the most influential texts of the era, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and that this performativity was itself inherited from one of Castiglione's sources, Cicero's De Oratore. The books concludes with a sustained reading of Much Ado to demonstrate how the play, in performance, itself acts as a Stoic exercise |
| Notes |
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Aug 2019) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 27, 2019) |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Much ado about nothing.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Stoicism
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 |
| SUBJECT |
Much ado about nothing (Shakespeare, William) fast |
| Subject |
Stoics in literature.
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Stoics in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108751797 |
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1108751792 |
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