Overview
Provides close textual analysis of Shakespeare’s plays
Draws on biographical and critical sources to chart Peter Ramus’s theories
Illustrates new evidence for the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Ramus, Smith, Cecil, and Oxford
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Front Matter
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The Rational Shakespeare
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Back Matter
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About this book
The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship examines William Shakespeare’s rationality from a Ramist perspective, linking that examination to the leading intellectuals of late humanism, and extending those links to the life of Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford. The application to Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets of a game-theoretic hermeneutic, an interpretive approach that Ramism suggests but ultimately evades, strengthens these connections in further supporting the Oxfordian answer to the question of Shakespearean authorship.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Michael Wainwright is Associate Lecturer of English and Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His previous monographs include Darwin and Faulkner’s Novels: Evolution and Southern Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and Game Theory and Postwar American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Rational Shakespeare
Book Subtitle: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship
Authors: Michael Wainwright
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95258-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Palgrave Macmillan, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95257-4Published: 31 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07003-8Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95258-1Published: 22 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 324
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary History, Shakespeare, Logic