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Unhae Park Langis is a scholar-seeker, Love activist, Earth travailer and stitcher of text and textile. A former teacher of twenty years, she is the author of Passion, Prudence, and Virtue in Shakespearean Drama (2011) and numerous essays in ethical criticism in collections and journals including Shakespeare Studies, EMLS, Upstart Crow, and Literature Compass. As a research fellow at the New Swan Shakespeare Center, University of California, Irvine, Langis has evolved from a virtue to a multi-perspectival wisdom hermeneutic through Stoic, Buddhist and Sufi readings of Shakespeare in several collections including this present volume. Julia Reinhard Lupton is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author or co-author of five books, including Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life (2018), Thinking with Shakespeare (2015), and Citizen-Saints (2012). She has edited or co-edited many volumes and special issues, including Shakespeare and Virtue: A Handbook (with Donovan Sherman), and Shakespeare's Virtuous Theatre: Power, Capacity, and the Good (with Kent Lehnhof and Carolyn Sale), Shakespeare and Hospitality (with David Goldstein), and Face to Face with Shakespeare (with Matthew Smith). She is a former Guggenheim Fellow and a former Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America.
This collection views Shakespeare as a curate of wisdom traditions. Inviting and yet unapologetic, its authors reimagine Shakespeare criticism as an ecumenical conversation about the art of living held between ancient voices and today's post-secular age. It is a book that warrants not responding to but thinking with.--Matthew J. Smith, Hildegard College
