The Insufficiency of Virtue: Macbeth and the Natural Order

by Jan H. Blits

Book Overview

The first scene-by-scene philosophical study of any Shakespeare play, this book demonstrates why Shakespeare's poetic writings still arouse and sustain serious inquiry and reflection. Using a combination of philosophical rigor, political insight, and textual thoroughness, Jan H. Blits delineates the competing forms of virtue within Macbeth--the courageous public virtue of warriors like Macbeth and the internal Christian virtue evoked by Duncan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 084768251X
• ISBN13: 9780847682515
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"