The Play of Conscience in Shakespeare’s England

Author:   Jade Standing
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781032398167


Pages:   168
Publication Date:   05 May 2025
Format:   Paperback
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The Play of Conscience in Shakespeare’s England


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Having a conscience distinguishes humans from the most advanced AI systems. Acting in good conscience, consulting one’s conscience, and being conscience-wracked are all aspects of human intelligence that involve reckoning (deriving general laws from particular inputs and vice versa), and judgement (contemplating the relationship of the reckoning system to the world). While AI developers have mastered reckoning, they are still working towards the creation of judgement. This book sheds light on the reckoning and judgement of conscience by demonstrating how these concepts are explored in Everyman, Doctor Faustus, The Merchant of Venice, and Hamlet. Academic, student, or general-interest readers discover the complexity and multiplicity of the early modern concept of conscience, which is informed by the scholastic intellectual tradition, juridical procedures of the court of Chancery, the practical advice of Protestant casuistry, and Reformation theology. The aims are to examine the rubrics for thinking through, regulating, and judging actions that define the various consciences of Shakespeare’s day, to use these rubrics to interpret questions of truth and action in early modern plays, and to offer insights into what it is about conscience that developers want to grasp to eliminate the difference between human and non-human intelligences, and achieve true AI.

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Author:   Jade Standing
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.330kg
ISBN:  

9781032398167


ISBN 10:   1032398167
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   05 May 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Play of Conscience Chapter 1: Everyman’s Reckonings Chapter 2: Bureaucratised Conscience in Doctor Faustus Chapter 3: Civic Conscience in The Merchant of Venice Chapter 4: Conscience-Caught in Hamlet Conclusion: Artificial Conscience?

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Jade Standing is the George Whalley Visiting Professor in Early Modern Literature at Queen's University (2023–2024).

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