Rational Shakespeare
Subtitle: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9783319952574
Subjects: Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, authorship
Description: "This title examines William Shakespeare's rationality from a Ramist perspective, linking that examination to the leading intellectuals of late humanism, and extending those links to the life of Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford. The application to Shakespeare's plays and sonnets of a game-theoretic hermeneutic, an interpretive approach that Ramism suggests but ultimately evades, strengthens these connections in further supporting the Oxfordian answer to the question of Shakespearean authorship"--