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TY  - BOOK
PB  - Stanford University Press
SE  - xii + 287 pp.
CY  - Stanford
ID  - aaam304
T1  - Shakespeare's Mad Men: A Crisis of Authority
AU  - Van Oort, Richard
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2026
LA  - English
AB  - Studies Lear in King Lear and Duke Vincentio in Measure for Measure as "mad king" and "mad duke," respectively, arguing they show Shakespeare to be "ethical thinker of the 'originary scene,'" or moment "in which humans became conscious of themselves as symbol-using moral and narrative beings." Considers ethical predicament of plays in effort to offer new reading of Shakespeare as playwright and play's ethical conflicts. Foreword by Paul A. Kottman.
ER  -