Full Description
This volume interweaves Shakespeare's wisdom with ancient spiritual practices and the insights of a post-secular age in order to explore a transhistorical space of sapient knowing and living. 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, tapping into a global sensus communis rooted in energetic knowing-with. This collection of essays begins in the Mediterranean with classical, biblical and Egyptian wisdom, 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. Sharing a common root in oikos, meaning home, the ecumenical and the ecological converge in an embodied ethics and politics of care premised in an ecological rather than ego-logical way of being.
Contents
List of lllustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Unhae Park Langis and Julia Reinhard Lupton
I. Shakespeare and the Oikumene
1. Wisdom Ecology: Mapping the Ancient Wisdom World into the Future
Unhae Park Langis
2. Sophia on the Cydnus: 'Antony and Cleopatra' as Wisdom Literature
Julia Reinhard Lupton
3. 'Like prayers divine': Shakespeare's Sonnets as Spiritual Exercise
Sean Keilen
4. Morality on Stage: Free Will, Counsel and Self-Counsel in Shakespeare and Glissenti
Eugenio Refini
II. Oikeiôsis and Ecology
5. Jaques the Pythagorean: Ecognosis and Pythagorean Wisdom Literature in 'As You Like It'
Todd Borlik
6. Sovereign Care and Natural Goodness: Stoic Wisdom in 'The Winter's Tale'
Benjamin Parris
III. A Kinaesthetic Ethics of the Heart-Mind
7. No Magistrate, No Engine, No Oil: 'Calvin's Case' (1608) and the Kinaesthetic Wisdom of 'The Tempest'
Carolyn Sale
8. Prajñāpāramitā and the Buddhist Path of Wisdom in 'King Lear'
Marguerite A. Tassi
9. Loving 'Not Wisely But Too Well': Race, Religion and Sufi Theoeroticism in 'Othello'
Unhae Park Langis
IV. Grace-Notes of Creative Wisdom
10. Holding a Space for Possibility: A Conversation with Madeline Sayet
11. Wisdom and Welcome in Madeline Sayet's 'Where We Belong'
Robin Alfriend Kello
12. 'wétos, vitus, vecchia', vita, Jos CharlesThe Buddha and the Bard: On Shakespeare and Mindfulness
Lauren Shufran
Afterword Shakespeare's Open O: Sounding Global Wisdoms into the Future
Joan Pong Linton
Notes on Contributors
Works Cited
Index
