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Shakespeare's Pacifism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Steven Marx
Steven Marx*
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California Polytechnic State University
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Like Youth and Age or Reason and Passion, War and Peace was one of those polarities that Renaissance writers persistently thought about as well as with. Reflection upon war and peace was at the heart of the Humanist movement, just as the conduct of war and peace was at the foundation of the European state system during the early modern period. This concern with war and peace arose from Humanism's defining traits: its exaltation of fame, its fascination with the military cultures of Greece and Rome, its emphasis on human dignity and freedom, its pursuit of secular knowledge in history and psychology, and its political commitment to improving the quality of institutional and personal life.’

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , Spring 1992 , pp. 49 - 95
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1992

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