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Joss Whedon as Shakespearean Moralist: Narrative Ethics of the Bard and the Buffyverse

Joss Whedon as Shakespearean Moralist: Narrative Ethics of the Bard and the Buffyverse

Rabb, J. Douglas
Richardson, J. Michael

Paperback

Literary FiguresLiterary CriticismFilmmaking

ISBN10: 0786474408
ISBN13: 9780786474400
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Dec 4 2014
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Drawing on the works of Shakespeare and American screenwriter Joss Whedon, this study in narrative ethics contends that Whedon is the Shakespeare of our time. The Bard wrote before the influence of the modern moral philosophers, while Whedon is writing in the postmodern period. It is argued that Whedon's work is more in harmony with the early modern values of Shakespeare than with modern ethics, which trace their origin to 17th and 18th century moral philosophy. This study includes a detailed discussion of representative works of Shakespeare and Whedon, showing how they can and should be read as forms of narrative ethics.

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