Focusing on works by Shakespeare and Spenser, this study shows the connection between visuality and ethical action in early modern English literature. The book places early modern debates about the value of visual experience into dialogue with subsequent philosophical and ethical efforts.

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JAMES A. KNAPP Associate Professor and Edward L. Surtz, S.J. Professor of Shakespeare and Textual Studies at Loyola University, Chicago, USA. He is the author of Illustrating the Past in Early Modern England: The Representation of History in Printed Books.

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Introduction: Image Ethics Harnessing the Visual: From Illustration to Ekphrasis From Visible to Invisible: Spenser's 'Aprill' and Messianic Ethics Looking for Ethics in Spenser's Faerie Queene 'To look, but with another's eyes': Translating Vision in A Midsummer Night's Dream The Ethics of Temporality in Measure for Measure 'Ocular proof' and the Dangers of the Perceptual Faith 'Disliken the truth of your own seeming': Visual and Ethical Truth in The Winter's Tale