@article{Schmidt_2014, title={Sucking the Sweets of Sweet Philosophy: Shakespeare’s Dramatic Use of Philosophy}, url={https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/memoria_di_shakespeare/article/view/11797}, abstractNote={<div class="page" title="Page 7"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>This essay explores the suggestion that Shakespeare incorporates philosophical elements into his plays to pursue dramatic rather than philosophi</span><span>cal or intellectual goals. I suggest that attending to this dramatic dimension </span><span>reveals how the plays can make a genuine contribution to philosophical thought while avoiding a common form of philosophical bardolatry that </span><span>attributes to the plays an explicitly philosophical intention they lack. The </span><span>essay breaks down into three sections. First, it provides an overview of the way Shakespeare uses philosophy to pursue three kinds of dramatic goals </span><span>in the plays. Next, it outlines the way our study of those effects contributes </span><span>to philosophy. Finally, it explains how focusing on the issue of dramatic contribution enables us to address three important concerns that have </span><span>been raised over any effort to link literature to philosophy. </span></p> <p><strong>Keywords</strong><span>: Shakespeare, Philosophy, Performance, Philosophical method, Literature as philosophy </span></p></div></div></div>}, number={1}, journal={Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies}, author={Schmidt, Erik W.}, year={2014}, month={Mar.} }