Virtue's own feature
Subtitle: Shakespeare and the virtue ethics tradition
By: David N. Beauregard.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Newark; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Ethics.; Didactic drama, English -- History and criticism.; Literature and morals -- History -- 16th century.; Literature and morals -- History -- 17th century.; Ethics, Renaissance, in literature.; Virtue in literature.
Description: Using an historical approach, Virtue's Own Feature explores nine of Shakespeare's most successful works as representations of the passions, virtues, and vices as they are complexly and extensively set out by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas.

The work first undertakes to describe the late Elizabethan poetic of Sir Philip Sidney, which is demonstrated to be Shakespeare's poetic as well. Second, this study explores Shakespeare's plays in relation to the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of moral philosophy, one important branch of a major sixteenth-century philosophical tradition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.