Shakespeare and the Just War Tradition

An Italian scholar of English literature and the European Renaissance, Pugliatti explains that while one eye was on her profession during the middle 2000s, the other was on the wars and the resistance to them that she saw on the streets of Florence, on the media, and deep within academia around the world. This is a product of that overlay. She examines the just war tradition in Europe, theaters of war offstage and onstage, Shakespeare on war and peace, and Henry V and the wars of our time. Among her specific topics are Aquinas on public and private violence, Christian de Pisan representing the lay tradition, Marlow and all, just war in contemporary tracts and manuals, Shakespeare on beginnings and declarations of war and honor and cowardice, the falsification of the cause belli, and God's hand and the empire. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)