Shakespeare, philosophy, and literature
Subtitle: essays
By: Morris Weitz ; edited by Margaret Collins Weitz ; introduction by Harry Levin.
Contributors: Weitz, Margaret Collins.
Series: New studies in aesthetics,; vol. 10
Publisher: P. Lang; Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers; Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Philosophy.; Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Philosophy in literature.; Literature -- Philosophy.; Poetics.
Description: This volume brings together a group of essays that examine the relationship between philosophy and literature - disciplines that have been opposed as often as they have been combined. While the focus is primarily on the plays of Shakespeare, there is a lengthy essay on the use of the style term maniera in art history, and a concluding survey and analysis of the relationship between philosophy and literature, from Plato to the present.

The author applies the theory of meaning and logical analysis to contemporary problems in the arts and aesthetics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-173) and indexes.
Selection of previously published essays from 1962 on.