Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics
- Submitting institution
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 89518
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1017/CBO9781107786158
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107071933
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107786158
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Additional information
- In addition to his essay in this volume (pp. 213-36), Patrick Gray was the co-editor of this collection and is a co-author of the substantial introduction (pp. 1-34). The volume emerged out of a postgraduate conference by the same title, Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics, which Gray organized at Yale University in 2010, while finishing his doctoral thesis. Gray conceived of the title and premise for the conference and secured funding for it from the Department of Renaissance Studies, the Elizabethan Club, and the Deans’ Fund for Student-Organized Symposia at Yale. He recruited one of the plenary speakers at the conference, John D. Cox, to serve as senior co-editor and co-author of the introduction and to contribute a single-author chapter. Gray commissioned ten chapters, in addition to his own and Cox’s, and corresponded with each contributor, developing possible lines of inquiry and providing detailed suggestions for revisions. As co-author, Gray was responsible for writing the first draft of the introduction, including not only summaries of each individual chapter, as well as discussion of their relation to each other, but also a sustained, original defence of the importance of ethics to literary criticism, departing explicitly from the influence of antihumanist theorists such as Foucault and Marxist critics such as Fredric Jameson, which at the time had long been dominant within Shakespeare studies.
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