Shakespeare and Continental Philosophy

This collection of 15 essays by celebrated authors in Shakespeare studies and in continental philosophy develops different aspects of the interface between continental thinking and Shakespeare's plays. The authors draw from current continental philosophy (e.g. Lacan, Foucault, Derrida) as well as from the 19th century continental tradition (e.g. Hegel, Kierkegaard) and from the early roots of continental tradition (e.g. Aristotle, Ibn Sina). The chapters address the span of the tragedies, comedies and history plays in the light of thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Ibn Sina and Jean-Luc Marion, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Schmitt, Arendt, Lacan, Levinas, Foucault and Derrida.

Jennifer Bates is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. She specialises in 19th-Century German Philosophy with an emphasis on Hegel. She is the author of two books:Hegel's Theory of Imagination (SUNY, 2004) and Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination (SUNY, 2010).

Richard Wilson is the Sir Peter Hall Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Kingston University, London. He is the author ofWill Power: Essays on Shakespearian Authority (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993),Secret Shakespeare: Studies in Theatre, Religion and Resistance (MUP, 2004) andShakespeare in French Theory: King of Shadows (new edn, Routledge, 2006), as well as the editor of several edited volumes including on New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, Shakespeare, and Christopher Marlowe.