Shakespeare and Tolerance
Shakespeare and Tolerance by B. J. Sokol, published by Cambridge University Press on December 2, 2010, is a reissue comprising 262 pages in English. This book explores Shakespeare’s ability to reflect and express significant cultural currents, particularly through the lens of tolerance in human interactions. It highlights how themes of religion, gender, nationality, and race are intricately woven into his plays, showcasing various approaches to bridging differences through empathy and understanding.
Readers will find a detailed examination of Shakespeare’s fascination with the underlying desires that promote tolerance, as opposed to the more common focus on oppression in recent studies. The analysis delves into numerous plays, passages, and themes, offering insights into how Shakespeare’s perceptions of tolerance remain relevant in contemporary discussions. This scholarly work contributes to the fields of literary criticism and European literature, providing a nuanced perspective on the complexities of tolerance in Shakespeare’s time and its implications today.
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Shakespeare’s remarkable ability to detect and express important new currents and moods in his culture often led him to dramatise human interactions based on the presence or absence of tolerance. Differences of religion, gender, nationality and what is now called ‘race’ are important in most of Shakespeare’s plays, and varied ways of bridging these differences by means of sympathy and understanding are often depicted. The full development of a tolerant society is still incomplete, and this study demonstrates how the perceptions Shakespeare showed in relation to its earlier development are still instructive and valuable today. Many recent studies of Shakespeare’s work have focused on reflections of the oppression or containment of minority, deviant or non-dominant groups or outlooks. This book reverses that trend and examines how Shakespeare was fascinated by the desires that underlie tolerance, including religion, race and sexuality, through close analysis of many Shakespearian plays, passages and themes.
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