Shakespeare and the Aristotelian Ethical Tradition

action activity Antonio areté Aristotelian ethical Aristotle Aristotle's audience Bassanio Bolingbroke Cambridge century character choice Christian comedy common concept conflict Coriolanus counsel criticism Desdemona discussion divine doctrine dramatic dramatist Edited effect Elizabethan emotional emphasis English ethical tradition evil excess extreme final end gives grace Greek habit Hamlet happiness hath Henry History Homilies honor human humility Iago Iago's idea ideal important incontinent individual intellectual virtue interpretation judgment justice King Lear knowledge latter liberality London man's means medieval Merchant of Venice mercy moral virtue nature Nicomachean Ethics norms obedience ordination Othello Oxford passion perfection philosophy Plato play play's pleasure plot Poetics political present principle problem prodigal prudence rational reason relation religious Renaissance Richard Richard II scene Shakes Shakespeare Shakespearean Tragedy Shylock social soul standard Summa Theologica supernatural symbolic theory thing Thomas Thomistic thou tion tragedy tragic hero translation University Press York