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Shakespeare and Wisdom

Ecumenical, Ecological and Ethical Horizons
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2024

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This volume interweaves Shakespeare’s wisdom with ancient spiritual practices and the insights of a post-secular age in order to explore a transhistorical space of sapient knowing and living. Pursuing the delight of heart, soul and understanding in the synaesthetic experience of theatre and the meditative space of poetry, sapiential Shakespeare explores knowledge, love, beauty, nature, will and power in conversation with multiple wisdom traditions, tapping into a global sensus communis rooted in energetic knowing-with. This collection of essays begins in the Mediterranean with classical, biblical and Egyptian wisdom, moves to the East to consider Sufi and Buddhist wisdom and then turns to the West to reflect on Indigenous science and ways of knowing. Sharing a common root in oikos, meaning home, the ecumenical and the ecological converge in an embodied ethics and politics of care premised in an ecological rather than ego-logical way of being.

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    Frontmatter

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    CONTENTS

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    List of Illustrations

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    Acknowledgements

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    Preface

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    Introduction

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    Unhae Park Langis and Julia Reinhard Lupton
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  • PART I: Shakespeare and the Oikumene
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    1. Wisdom Ecology: Mapping the Ancient Wisdom World into the Future

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    Unhae Park Langis
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    2. Sophia on the Cydnus: Antony and Cleopatra as Wisdom Literature

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    Julia Reinhard Lupton
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    3. ‘Like Prayers Divine’: Shakespeare’s Sonnets as Spiritual Exercise

    73
    Sean Keilen
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    4. Morality on Stage: Free Will, Counsel and Self-Counsel in Shakespeare and Glissenti

    95
    Eugenio Refini
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  • PART II: Oikeiôsis and Ecology
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    5. Jaques the Pythagorean: Ecognosis and Pythagorean Wisdom Literature in As You Like It

    119
    Todd Andrew Borlik
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    6. Sovereign Care and Natural Goodness: Stoic Wisdom in The Winter’s Tale

    146
    Benjamin Parris
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  • PART III: A Kinaesthetic Ethics of the Heart-Mind
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    7. Prajñāpāramitā and the Buddhist Path of Wisdom in King Lear

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    Marguerite A. Tassi
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    8. Loving ‘Not Wisely But Too Well’: Race, Religion and Sufi Theoeroticism in Othello

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    Unhae Park Langis
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    9. No Magistrate, No Engine, No Oil: Calvin’s Case (1608) and the Kinaesthetic Wisdom of The Tempest

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    Carolyn Sale
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  • PART IV: Grace-Notes of Creative Wisdom
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    10. Holding a Space for Possibility: A Conversation with Madeline Sayet

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    11. Wisdom and Welcome in Madeline Sayet’s Where We Belong

    285
    Robin Alfriend Kello
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    12. wétos, vitus, vecchia, vita

    298
    Jos Charles
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    13. The Buddha and the Bard: On Shakespeare and Mindfulness

    311
    Lauren Shufran
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    Afterword: Shakespeare’s Open O: Sounding Global Wisdoms into the Future

    323
    Joan Pong Linton
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    Notes on Contributors

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    Works Cited

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    Index

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October 30, 2024
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9781399516587
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399516587
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Literary Studies
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
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