... strength and the fox’s ingenuity. Defined in the Aristotelian corpus and valorized in Plutarch’s Moralia , ingenuity-as-prudence was a set of cognitive responses prompted by appetites and shared by humans and beasts alike. Ingenuity anchors an alternative account of organized polis and sociability...

... polemical prose, Milton explicitly argues for active, virtuous citizenship. In Eikonoklastes (October, 1649), for instance, he insists that the best form of government is one that fosters its citizens’ virtue and liberty: “The happiness of a Nation consists in true Religion, Piety, Justice, Prudence...

... garments. The gold and silver on their own perhaps suggest simple prudence on the part of a very wealthy man, as he’ll have to pay his way wherever he goes. The wheat begins, on further consideration, to seem stranger provisioning for an emergency voyage than it might at first glance: grain, after all...

... to the larger field of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater history, in part because of an accurate sense that very few other contemporary playwrights were con- sistently producing material with quite the same ingenuity and sophistica- tion. This isolationist tendency has been especially pronounced with All...