Nobler in the mind
Subtitle: the stoic-skeptic dialectic in English Renaissance tragedy
By: Geoffrey Aggeler.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; English drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.; Skepticism in literature.; Philosophy in literature.; Stoics in literature.; Renaissance -- England.
Description: Runner-up in the 1997 University of Delaware Press Shakespeare manuscript competition, Nobler in the Mind reviews two major intellectual movements, the Stoic and Skeptic revivals, which, along with the Protestant Reformation, profoundly affected English Renaissance drama. The discussions of the dialectic in the plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries may be seen as parts of an extended preface to the discussion of Hamlet.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-192) and index.