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ISBN:
9780300256703
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0300256701
Inhalt:
An illuminating account of how Shakespeare worked through the tensions of Queen Elizabeth's England in two canon-defining plays
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-210) and index
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Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Plates -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART ONE TITUS ANDRONICUS -- 1 Succession and confessional politics combined -- 2 Tyranny delineated -- Tyranny as a conspiracy (of evil counsel) -- Beyond evil counsel -- Bad Queen Bess? -- From tyranny to resistance -- 3 Beyond paganism and politics -- Providential endings, political means -- Atheism and its opposites -- PART TWO HAMLET -- 4 Hamlet with the confessional and succession politics left in -- The topical matrix: dynastic politics gets personal
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The topical matrix and providential politics -- The topical matrix and confessional politics -- The topical matrix and religious politics -- 5 The generic matrix Revenge tragedy, history play, murder pamphlet and conversion narrative -- Revenge tragedy and history play -- The murder pamphlet -- The conversion narrative -- 6 The (providential) purposes of playing -- ' The purpose of playing' anatomized -- 7 The politics of conscience -- Talking like an atheist and acting like a Christian -- Putting religion before politics: Hamlet as minister, not scourge -- Delaying to do what, exactly?
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Providence -- Hamlet's other half: Laertes and the resort to politics -- Resolution(s) -- 8 Contemporary resonances -- Catholic/Protestant/Christian -- Predestination -- Conclusion Pagan/Catholic/Protestant/Christian -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index
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In English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780300247817
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0300247818
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lake, Peter Hamlet's choice New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020] ISBN 9780300247817
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 0300247818
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780300247817
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
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