Circumstantial Shakespeare
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 894
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780199657100
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Circumstantial Shakespeare transforms our understanding of the apparent autonomy and vitality of Shakespeare’s characters by rewriting the history of pre-Enlightenment probability. This required the synthesising of intensive research in classical and Renaissance rhetoric with extensive reading in the history of probability and its application to post-Enlightenment Shakespeare criticism. Showing how Renaissance conceptions of belief-making depended on a rhetorical understanding of ‘circumstances’ as topics of proof, the book disproves the commonplace that Shakespeare’s plays are temporally and spatially permissive, showing how they tie circumstances of time and place to motive and feeling, inviting us to infer interiority and imagine ‘character’.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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