Shakespeare and Wisdom : Ecumenical, Ecological and Ethical Horizons

[headline]Explores how Shakespeare uses global wisdom literatures to encourage spiritual and moral growth and the arts of living in a connected world This volume interweaves Shakespeare's wisdom with ancient spiritual practices and the insights of a post-secular age to explore a transhistorical space of sapient knowing and living. It argues that Shakespeare inherits and participates in global wisdom literature, speaking through women, philosophers and fools about the beauty, dignity and variety of the cosmos and its creatures. Beginning in the Mediterranean with classical, biblical and Egyptian wisdom, the collection then moves to the East to consider Sufi and Buddhist wisdom and then turns to the West to reflect on Indigenous science and ways of knowing. In pursuing the delight of heart, soul and understanding in the synaesthetic experience of theatre and the meditative space of poetry, sapiential Shakespeare explores knowledge, love, beauty, nature, will and power in conversation with multiple wisdom traditions. [bio]Unhae Park Langis is a scholar-seeker-activist and a former teacher of twenty years. She is the author of Passion, Prudence, and Virtue in Shakespearean Drama (2011). Her essays have appeared in Shakespeare Studies, EMLS, Upstart Crow and Literature Compass and other journals, as well as in recent collections such as Shakespeare and Virtue: A Handbook (2023) and Shakespeare's Virtuous Theatre: Power, Capacity, and the Good (2023). Julia Reinhard Lupton is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. Her publications include Thinking with Shakespeare (2015); Shakespeare Dwelling (2018); Face to Face with Shakespeare (with Matthew Smith, 2019); Shakespeare and Virtue: A Handbook (with Donovan Sherman, 2023); and Shakespeare's Virtuous Theatre: Power, Capacity, and the Good (with Kent Lehnhof and Carolyn Sale, 2023).