Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Loewenstein, David

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316236031
• Artikelnr.: 52977179

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction David Loewenstein and Michael Witmore; Part I. Revisiting
Religious Contexts in Shakespeare's England: 1. The debate about
Shakespeare and religion David Bevington; 2. Choosing sides and talking
religion in Shakespeare's England Peter Marshall; 3. Experiencing religion
in London: diversity and choice in Shakespeare's metropolis Felicity Heal;
Part II. Representing Religious Beliefs and Diversity in the Plays: 4.
Delusion in A Midsummer Night's Dream Alison Shell; 5. The siege of
Jerusalem and subversive rhetoric in King John Beatrice Groves; 6.
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the search for a usable (Christian?) past
Peter Lake; 7. Lucretius, Calvin, and natural law in Measure for Measure
Adrian Streete; 8. Agnostic Shakespeare?: the God-less world of King Lear
David Loewenstein; 9. 'Another Golgotha' Ewan Fernie; 10. Shakespeare and
wisdom literature Michael Witmore; 11. Awakening faith in The Winter's Tale
Richard McCoy; 12. Hamlet, Henry VIII, and the question of religion: a
post-secular perspective Paul Stevens; 13. Converting Henry: truth,
history, and historical faith in Henry VIII Michael Davies; 14.
Shakespeare's non-Christian religions Matthew Dimmock; Afterword Brian
Cummings.