ABSTRACT
Brought to light in this study is a connection between the treatment of war in Shakespeare's plays and the issue of the 'just war', which loomed large both in religious and in lay treatises of Shakespeare's time. The book re-reads Shakespeare's representations of war in light of both the changing historical and political contexts in which they were produced and of Shakespeare's possible connection with the culture and ideology of the European just war tradition. But to discuss Shakespeare's representations of war means, for Pugliatti, not simply to examine his work from a literary point of view or to historicize those representations in connection with the discourses (and the practice) of war which were produced in his time; it also means to consider or re-consider present-day debates for or against war and the kind of war ideology which is trying to assert itself in our time in light of the tradition which shaped those discourses and representations and which still substantiates our 'moral' view of war.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
Introduction
part |46 pages
Ethics and Warfare: The Just War Tradition in Europe
chapter |17 pages
Christianity and the Ethics of Warface
chapter |10 pages
The Lay Tradition
chapter |16 pages
The 'Pacifist' Tradition
part |47 pages
Theatres of War: Offstage and Onstage
chapter |13 pages
Elizabetha Triumphans
chapter |21 pages
Marlowe et alii
chapter |9 pages
Closer to Shakespeare
part |94 pages
Shakespeare on War and Peace
chapter |15 pages
The Temper of War and Peace
chapter |33 pages
Ius ad bellum
chapter |42 pages
Ius in bello
part |34 pages
Henry V and the Wars of Our Time