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74 - Philosophy

from Part VIII - High Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Todd Butler
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Antony and CleopatraapatheiaApology for PoetryAristotleastronomyAs You Like ItataraxiaatomismBodin, JeanBrutusCalibanCassiuscatharsisCiceroThe Comedy of ErrorsconstancyCymbelinedemonologydivine rightdoubtEpictetusEpicureanismGalileoHamletHenry IVHoratioJames IJustus LipsiusKing LearLucreceLucretiusMacbethMachiavelli, NiccolòMarc AntonyMarcus AureliusMeasure for MeasureThe Merry Wives of WindsorMontaigne, Michel deA Midsummer Night’s DreamMuch Ado about NothingnatureNeoplatonismneostoicNicomachean EthicsOthellopathospatriarchyPlatoPoeticsThe PrinceProsperorepublicanismresistanceRichard IIscienceSenecaSextus EmpiricusSidney, Sir PhilipskepticismSocratesStoicismThe Taming of the ShrewThe TempestTitus AndronicusTroilus and CressidaTwelfth NighttyrannyThe Winter’s Talewitchcraft
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 572 - 579
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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