The Rational Shakespeare Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship /

• Main Author: Wainwright, Michael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature-History and criticism.; Literature, Modern.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Logic.; Literary History.; Shakespeare.

The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship examines William Shakespeare's rationality from a Ramist perspective, linking that examination to the leading intellectuals of late humanism, and extending those links to the life of Edward de Vere, Seventeent...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Peter Ramus and the Basis of Logic
• Chapter 2 Thomas Smith, Edward de Vere, and William Cecil
• Chapter 3 Peter Ramus, Edward de Oxford, and the Basis of Logic
• Chapter 4 Ramus's Method
• Chapter 5 The Strengths and Weakness of Ramism
• Chapter 6 Introduction: Ramism and Game Theory
• Chapter 7 The Banker and His Player
• Chapter 8 Oxford, Ramus, and Love's Labour's Lost
• Chapter 9 Oxford, Ramus, and Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
• Chapter 10 Deadlock and the Prisoner's Dilemma in King John
• Chapter 11 Assurance Games in Antony and Cleopatra (Part 1)
• Chapter 12 Assurance Games in Antony and Cleopatra (Part 2)
• Chapter 13 Chicken in King Henry V (Part 1)
• Chapter 14 Chicken in King Henry V (Part 2)
• Chapter 15 Conclusion.