Elaine L. Robinson's Shakespeare Attacks Bigotry: A Close Reading of Six Plays PDF

By Elaine L. Robinson

ISBN-10: 0786440392

ISBN-13: 9780786440399

the writer argues that Renaissance humanism created a procedure of bigotry and eroded the perform of Christianity, and that Shakespeare tried to reveal and condemn that shift. The publication examines six of his plays—Titus Andronicus, The service provider of Venice, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth—and explores how they satirized humanism’s grounding in Aristotle’s philosophy of slavery and supremacy. Shakespeare used characters like Hamlet and Aaron the Moor to assault that bigotry, and his stance opposed to racism and humanism published his Catholic faith.

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