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    Entertaining the Idea
    Shakespeare, Performance, and Philosophy

    Lowell Gallagher (Edited by), James Kearney (Edited by), Julia Reinhard Lupton (Edited by)

    9781487507435

    Hardback, published 16 December 2020

    252 pages, 6 b&w illustrations
    23.1 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.5 kg

    "This book is yet another superb result of the long-standing publishing joint venture of the UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series and University of Toronto Press. The volume’s editors have brought together twelve stimulating and original essays."

    - Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary’s University (Renaissance and Reformation)

    To entertain an idea is to take it in, pay attention to it, give it breathing room, dwell with it for a time. The practice of entertaining ideas suggests rumination and meditation, inviting us to think of philosophy as a form of hospitality and a kind of mental theatre. In this collection, organized around key words shared by philosophy and performance, the editors suggest that Shakespeare’s plays supply readers, listeners, viewers, and performers with equipment for living.

    In plays ranging from A Midsummer Night’s Dream to King Lear and The Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare invites readers and audiences to be more responsive to the texture and meaning of daily encounters, whether in the intimacies of love, the demands of social and political life, or moments of ethical decision. Entertaining the Idea features established and emerging scholars, addressing key words such as role play, acknowledgment, judgment, and entertainment as well as curse and care. The volume also includes longer essays on Shakespeare, Kant, Husserl, and Hegel as well as an afterword by theatre critic Charles McNulty on the philosophy and performance history of King Lear.

    Illustrations
    Acknowledgments

    Introduction: Lowell Gallagher, James Kearney, and Julia Reinhard Lupton

    Section I: Key Words

    1. Shakespeare and Role Playing
    Tzachi Zamir

    2. Habit
    J.K. Barret

    3. Acknowledgment
    Sarah Beckwith
     
    4. Judgment
    Kevin Curran

    5. Way of Life
    James Kuzner
     
    6. Entertainment
    Jeffrey Knapp
     
    7. Curse
    Björn Quiring
     
    8. Care
    Sheiba Kian Kaufman

    Section II: Extended Encounters

    9. Shakespeare’s Now: Some Philosophical Perspectives on King Lear and The Winter’s Tale
    Sanford Budick

    10. Hegel with Hamlet: Questions of Method
    Anselm Haverkamp

    11. Bliss Unrevealed: The "Trial" in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
    Paul Kottman

    Afterword by Charles McNulty, Theatre Critic, Los Angeles Times

    Works Cited
    Contributors
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