Religion Of Shakespeare
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Author |
: Peter Iver Kaufman |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 341 |
Release |
: 2015-06-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780271069586 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0271069589 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion Around Shakespeare by : Peter Iver Kaufman
For years scholars and others have been trying to out Shakespeare as an ardent Calvinist, a crypto-Catholic, a Puritan-baiter, a secularist, or a devotee of some hybrid faith. In Religion Around Shakespeare, Peter Kaufman sets aside such speculation in favor of considering the historical and religious context surrounding his work. Employing extensive archival research, he aims to assist literary historians who probe the religious discourses, characters, and events that seem to have found places in Shakespeare’s plays and to aid general readers or playgoers developing an interest in the plays’ and playwright’s religious contexts: Catholic, conformist, and reformist. Kaufman argues that sermons preached around Shakespeare and conflicts that left their marks on literature, law, municipal chronicles, and vestry minutes enlivened the world in which (and with which) he worked and can enrich our understanding of the playwright and his plays.
Author |
: David Scott Kastan |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199572892 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199572895 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Will to Believe by : David Scott Kastan
A Will to Believe is a revised version of Kastan's 2008 Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures, providing a provocative account of the ways in which religion animates Shakespeare's plays.
Author |
: E. Beatrice Batson |
Publisher |
: Baylor University Press |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781932792362 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1932792368 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare's Christianity by : E. Beatrice Batson
This volume explores the influences of Catholicism and Protestantism in a trio of Shakespeare's tragedies: Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet. Bypassing the discussion of Shakespeare's personal religious beliefs, Batson instead focuses on distinct footprints left by Catholic and Protestant traditions that underlie and inform Shakespeare's artistic genius.
Author |
: Hannibal Hamlin |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 331 |
Release |
: 2019-03-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107172593 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107172594 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion by : Hannibal Hamlin
A wide-ranging yet accessible investigation into the importance of religion in Shakespeare's works, from a team of eminent international scholars.
Author |
: Dennis Taylor |
Publisher |
: Studies in Religion and Litera |
Total Pages |
: 468 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015052881615 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England by : Dennis Taylor
The question of Shakespeare's Catholic contexts has occupied many scholars in recent years and this study brings together 16 original essays examining Shakespeare's work in the light of revisionist scholarship, from monastic life in 'Measure for Measure' to Puritanism in 'Hamlet'.
Author |
: Graham Holderness |
Publisher |
: Lion Books |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2016-11-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745968926 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0745968929 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Faith of William Shakespeare by : Graham Holderness
William Shakespeare stills stands head and shoulders above any other author in the English language, a position that is unlikely ever to change. Yet it is often said that we know very little about him - and that applies as much to what he believed as it does to the rest of his biography. Or does it? In this authoritative new study, Graham Holderness takes us through the context of Shakespeare's life, times of religious and political turmoil, and looks at what we do know of Shakespeare the Anglican. But then he goes beyond that, and mines the plays themselves, not just for the words of the characters, but for the concepts, themes and language which Shakespeare was himself steeped in - the language of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. Considering particularly such plays as Richard ll, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, Othello, The Tempest and The Winter's Tale, Holderness shows how the ideas of Catholicism come up against those of Luther and Calvin; how Christianity was woven deep into Shakespeare's psyche, and how he brought it again and again to his art.
Author |
: Gillian Woods |
Publisher |
: Oxford English Monographs |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 2013-06-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199671267 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199671265 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare's Unreformed Fictions by : Gillian Woods
Shakespeare's Unreformed Fictions asks why Catholicism had such an imaginative hold on Shakespearean drama, even though the on-going Reformation outlawed its practice. Concentrating on dramatic impact, and integrating literary analysis with fresh historical research, Gillian Woods offers a new and engaging answer to this important question.
Author |
: Clare Asquith |
Publisher |
: PublicAffairs |
Total Pages |
: 395 |
Release |
: 2018-10-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781541774308 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1541774302 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shadowplay by : Clare Asquith
In 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: England, it seemed, had become a police state, fearful of threats from abroad and plotters at home. This age of terror was also the era of the greatest creative genius the world has ever known: William Shakespeare. How, then, could such a remarkable man born into such violently volatile times apparently make no comment about the state of England in his work? He did. But it was hidden. Revealing Shakespeare's sophisticated version of a forgotten code developed by 16th-century dissidents, Clare Asquith shows how he was both a genius for all time and utterly a creature of his own era: a writer who was supported by dissident Catholic aristocrats, who agonized about the fate of England's spiritual and political life and who used the stage to attack and expose a regime which he believed had seized illegal control of the country he loved. Shakespeare's plays offer an acute insight into the politics and personalities of his era. And Clare Asquith's decoding of them offers answers to several mysteries surrounding Shakespeare's own life, including most notably why he stopped writing while still at the height of his powers. An utterly compelling combination of literary detection and political revelation, Shadowplay is the definitive expose of how Shakespeare lived through and understood the agonies of his time, and what he had to say about them.
Author |
: Beatrice Groves |
Publisher |
: Clarendon Press |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2006-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191514142 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191514144 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Texts and Traditions by : Beatrice Groves
Texts and Traditions explores Shakespeare's thoroughgoing engagement with the religious culture of his time. In the wake of the recent resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's Catholicism, Groves eschews a reductively biographical approach and considers instead the ways in which Shakespeare's borrowing from both the visual culture of Catholicism and the linguistic wealth of the Protestant English Bible enriched his drama. Through close readings of a number of plays - Romeo and Juliet, King John, 1 Henry IV, Henry V ,and Measure for Measure - Groves unearths and explains previously unrecognised allusions to the Bible, the Church's liturgy, and to the mystery plays performed in England in Shakespeare's boyhood. Texts and Traditions provides new evidence of the way in which Shakespeare exploited his audience's cultural memory and biblical knowledge in order to enrich his ostensibly secular drama and argues that we need to unravel the interpretative possibilities of these religious nuances in order fully to grasp the implications of his plays.
Author |
: Joseph Pearce |
Publisher |
: Ignatius Press |
Total Pages |
: 223 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781586174132 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1586174134 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Through Shakespeare's Eyes by : Joseph Pearce
Pearce analyzes three of Shakespeare's immortal plays in order to uncover evidence of the Bard's Catholic beliefs.