{"product_id":"spirits-finely-touched-the-testing-of-value-and-integrity-in-four-shakespearean-plays-paperback","title":"Spirits Finely Touched: The Testing of Value and Integrity in Four Shakespearean Plays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarold Skulsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArmed with a fresh analysis of Shakespeare's inherited resources for articulating anxieties rooted in philosophical doubt, Skulsky shows that in four plays--\u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e--the drama of doubt in search of an exit gives its own kind of urgency to the more familiar Shakespearean drama of action and motive. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Skulsky's study, the four plays emerge as insidiously telling exercises in challenging our working faith in the objectivity of moral choice and the possibility of knowing other minds. In particular, Skulsky notes that Shakespeare takes calculated risks with our personal interest in his heroes by assigning them disturbing convictions as well as contemptible actions. In one of the plays, such convictions end by looking just as threatening as they do at the outset. In the others, Shakespeare offers a special kind of affirmation and compassion--an affirmation designed to stand against the worst of pessimism, and a compassion that makes room for the worst of the damned.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHAROLD SKULSKY is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at Smith College, and is an adjunct professor of philosophy at Hofstra University. His works include \u003ci\u003eSpirits Finely Touched: The Testing of Value and Integrity in Four Shakespearean Plays\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLanguage Recreated: Seventeenth-Century Metaphorists and the Act of Metaphor\u003c\/i\u003e (both Georgia), as well as \u003ci\u003eMetamorphosis: The Mind in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Milton and the Death of Man: Humanism on Trial in Paradise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStaring into the Void: Spinoza the Master of Nihilism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 298\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53329436999987,"sku":"9780820338590","price":66.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/qN20maTEYk9780820338590.webp?v=1778165897","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/spirits-finely-touched-the-testing-of-value-and-integrity-in-four-shakespearean-plays-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}