UID:
almahu_9947413999602882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 317 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139208147 (ebook)
Content:
Written by an international team of literary scholars and historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions of Protestantism, Catholicism, non-Christian religions including Judaism and Islam, and secular perspectives, considering plays such as Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King John, King Lear, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale. The collection is of great interest to readers of Shakespeare studies, early modern literature, religious studies, and early modern history.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction / David Loewenstein and Michael Witmore -- Part I: Revisiting religious contexts in Shakespeare's England. The debate about Shakespeare and religion / David Bevington ; Choosing sides and talking religion in Shakespeare's England / Peter Marshall ; Experiencing religion in London : diversity and choice in Shakespeare's metropolis / Felicity Heal -- Part II: Representing religious beliefs and diversity in the plays. Delusion in a Midsummer night's dream / Alison Shell ; The siege of Jerusalem and subversive rhetoric in King John / Beatrice Groves ; Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the search for a usable (Christian?) past / Peter Lake ; Lucretius, Calvin, and natural law in Measure for Measure / Adrian Streete ; Agnostic Shakespeare? : the Godless world of King Lear / David Loewenstein ; "Another Golgotha" / Ewan Fernie ; Shakespeare and wisdom literature / Michael Witmore ; Awakening faith in The Winter's Tale / Richard McCoy ; Hamlet, Henry VIII, and the question of religion : a post-secular perspective / Paul Stevens ; Converting Henry : truth, history, and historical faith in Henry VIII / Michael Davies ; Shakespeare's non-Christian religions / Matthew Dimmock -- Afterword / Brian Cummings.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107026612
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139208147
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