SHAKESPEARE AND ETHICS
Colin McGinnShakespeare’s plays are full of philosophical ideas, but they are rarely examined systematically. In this pamphlet philosopher Colin McGinn analyzes the plays to distill Shakespeare’s ideas about ethics. McGinn concludes that the “plays are about good and evil,” and that Shakespeare is “a great moral psychologist,” who expertly stages how his characters are defined by their moral qualities (their naturalistic virtues and vices).
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