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Virtue is mentioned more than 200 times in Shakespeare's works, and it appears in every single one of the plays. The idea seems to have some real salience for understanding Shakespeare's characters, and it also applies to plants, gemstones, and human artifacts. Unhae Park Langis approaches Shakespeare's complex articulation of virtue in the context of an early modern philosophical tradition linked to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, a work widely available in English translation and frequently discussed in early modern culture. Aristotle thought of virtue as both the pursuit of personal excellence and as the effort of self-regulation necessary to achieve eudaimonia -thriving -or genuine happiness. Although it is likely that Shakespeare knew something about Aristotle's ideas, his own presentation of the virtue of virtue is not just a derivative phenomenon. He dramatizes his own "panoramic" view of character, often focusing on the forms of subjective irrationality that lead inevitably to self-deception and self-defeat. He does share with Aristotle a concern with human variety in the pursuit of the good life and on the manifold ways his characters fail in their efforts to achieve it. A

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Author

Langis, Unhae Park

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472555069

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities