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Author : Peter Milward
Publisher : Loyola Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Religious Background written by Peter Milward and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191004294
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Will to Believe written by David Scott Kastan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 19 December 1601, John Croke, then Speaker of the House of Commons, addressed his colleagues: "If a question should be asked, What is the first and chief thing in a Commonwealth to be regarded? I should say, religion. If, What is the second? I should say, religion. If, What the third? I should still say, religion." But if religion was recognized as the "chief thing in a Commonwealth," we have been less certain what it does in Shakespeare's plays. Written and performed in a culture in which religion was indeed inescapable, the plays have usually been seen either as evidence of Shakespeare's own disinterested secularism or, more recently, as coded signposts to his own sectarian commitments. Based upon the inaugural series of the Oxford-Wells Shakespeare Lectures in 2008, A Will to Believe offers a thoughtful, surprising, and often moving consideration of how religion actually functions in them: not as keys to Shakespeare's own faith but as remarkably sensitive registers of the various ways in which religion charged the world in which he lived. The book shows what we know and can't know about Shakespeare's own beliefs, and demonstrates, in a series of wonderfully alert and agile readings, how the often fraught and vertiginous religious environment of Post-Reformation England gets refracted by the lens of Shakespeare's imagination.
Author : Gillian Woods
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199671265
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Unreformed Fictions written by Gillian Woods and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Hannibal Hamlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107172594
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion written by Hannibal Hamlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging yet accessible investigation into the importance of religion in Shakespeare's works, from a team of eminent international scholars.
Author : Graham Holderness
Publisher : Lion Books
ISBN 13 : 0745968929
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (459 download)
Download or read book The Faith of William Shakespeare written by Graham Holderness and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Christopher Baker
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Religion in the Age of Shakespeare written by Christopher Baker and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's plays were the product of his culture and reflect the daily life of Elizabethans. This book examines the religious background of his works and helps students use his plays to understand religion in Elizabethan England. The initial chapters survey the role of religion in Shakespeare's world. The volume then looks at religion in his plays and how productions from different periods have addressed the religious issues of his drama. A chapter then overviews criticism on Shakespeare and religion, while a selection of primary documents illuminates his religious milieu. Students often find the Elizabethan world fascinating yet challenging. The same can be said of Shakespeare's plays, which reflect the daily life and concerns of Elizabethan England and grew out of his milieu. Written for students, this book illuminates the religious life of Elizabethan England, promotes a greater understanding of Shakespeare's plays, and uses Shakespeare's works to examine Early Modern religious culture. The volume begins with a quick overview of the origins of Elizabethan religious traditions, followed by a more detailed consideration of the chief religious beliefs and concerns of Shakespeare's world. It then discusses the role of religion in Shakespeare's plays. This is followed by a look at how various productions have interpreted his religious concerns. A review of criticism on Shakespeare and religion follows, along with a selection of primary documents related to religion in his world. A glossary defines key terms and concepts, and a bibliography cites print and electronic resources for further study. Literature students will welcome this book as a guide to Shakespeare's plays, while history students will value it for using his plays to examine religion in the Early Modern era.
Author : Peter Lake
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300247818
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Hamlet's Choice written by Peter Lake and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating account of how Shakespeare worked through the tensions of Queen Elizabeth's England in two canon-defining plays Conspiracies and revolts simmered beneath the surface of Queen Elizabeth's reign. England was riven with tensions created by religious conflict and the prospect of dynastic crisis and regime change. In this rich, incisive account, Peter Lake reveals how in Titus Andronicus and Hamlet Shakespeare worked through a range of Tudor anxieties, including concerns about the nature of justice, resistance, and salvation. In both Hamlet and Titus the princes are faced with successions forged under questionable circumstances and they each have a choice: whether or not to resort to political violence. The unfolding action, Lake argues, is best understood in terms of contemporary debates about the legitimacy of resistance and the relation between religion and politics. Relating the plays to their broader political and polemical contexts, Lake sheds light on the nature of revenge, resistance, and religion in post-Reformation England.
Author : David N. Beauregard
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 0874130026
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Catholic Theology in Shakespeare's Plays written by David N. Beauregard and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores and reexamines Shakespeare's theology from the standpoint of revisionist history of the English Reformation.
Author : John Donnan Countermine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Religious Belief of Shakespeare written by John Donnan Countermine and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roland Mushat Frye
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400878934
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and Christian Doctrine written by Roland Mushat Frye and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining scholarship with grace, the author shows in this study that Shakespeare's works are pervasively secular, that he was concerned with the dramatization of universally human situations within a temporal and this-worldly arena, and that he was familiar with and used theological materials as only one of many natural and available sources. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : David Loewenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316239810
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion written by David Loewenstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : K. Graham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230240852
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and Religious Change written by K. Graham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This balanced and innovative collection explores the relationship of Shakespeare's plays to the changing face of early modern religion, considering the connections between Shakespeare's theatre and the religious past, the religious identities of the present and the deep cultural changes that would shape the future of religion in the modern world.
Author : Christopher Baker
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Religion in the Age of Shakespeare written by Christopher Baker and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's plays were the product of his culture and reflect the daily life of Elizabethans. This book examines the religious background of his works and helps students use his plays to understand religion in Elizabethan England. The initial chapters survey the role of religion in Shakespeare's world. The volume then looks at religion in his plays and how productions from different periods have addressed the religious issues of his drama. A chapter then overviews criticism on Shakespeare and religion, while a selection of primary documents illuminates his religious milieu. Students often find the Elizabethan world fascinating yet challenging. The same can be said of Shakespeare's plays, which reflect the daily life and concerns of Elizabethan England and grew out of his milieu. Written for students, this book illuminates the religious life of Elizabethan England, promotes a greater understanding of Shakespeare's plays, and uses Shakespeare's works to examine Early Modern religious culture. The volume begins with a quick overview of the origins of Elizabethan religious traditions, followed by a more detailed consideration of the chief religious beliefs and concerns of Shakespeare's world. It then discusses the role of religion in Shakespeare's plays. This is followed by a look at how various productions have interpreted his religious concerns. A review of criticism on Shakespeare and religion follows, along with a selection of primary documents related to religion in his world. A glossary defines key terms and concepts, and a bibliography cites print and electronic resources for further study. Literature students will welcome this book as a guide to Shakespeare's plays, while history students will value it for using his plays to examine religion in the Early Modern era.
Author : Joseph Pearce
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1586174134
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Through Shakespeare's Eyes written by Joseph Pearce and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearce analyzes three of Shakespeare's immortal plays in order to uncover evidence of the Bard's Catholic beliefs.
Author : Kristen Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521025447
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton written by Kristen Poole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of religious non-conformity in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.
Author : Robert Stevenson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401538514
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare’s Religious Frontier written by Robert Stevenson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS slight volume is addressed not to Shakespearean special ists, but rather to the general public. My chief purpose has been to view Shakespeare's manipulation of his clergy. The last three chapters deal with ancillary problems. Two articles in this collection have already been published - "Shakespeare's Cardinals and Bishops" in The Crozer Quarterry, April, 1950; "Shakespeare's Interest in Harsnet's Declaration" in Publications of the Modern Language Association, September, 1952. I appreciate the Editors' permission to reprint these essays in the present volume. I also thank Professors Gerald Eades Bentley and Lily Bess Campbell for encourage ment and advice during the writing of the first, fifth, and last pieces in this collection. Neither is however to be held re sponsible for any errors discovered by reviewers. All of the essays in this volume except the first were written either at The Folger Shakespeare Library in 1950 or at The Huntington Library in 1952. I thank the directors and staffs of both libraries for their many exceptional kindnesses. Miss Mary Neighbour of Oxford has placed me further in her debt by typing the completed collection.
Author : Richard Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719070242
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Secret Shakespeare written by Richard Wilson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Catholic context was the most important literary discovery of the last century. No biography of the Bard is now complete without chapters on the paranoia and persecution in which he was educated, or the treason which engulfed his family. Whether to suffer outrageous fortune or take up arms in suicidal resistance was, as Hamlet says, 'the question' that fired Shakespeare's stage. In 'Secret Shakespeare' Richard Wilson asks why the dramatist remained so enigmatic about his own beliefs, and so silent on the atrocities he survived.Shakespeare constructed a drama not of discovery, like his rivals, but of darkness, deferral, evasion and disguise, where, for all his hopes of a 'golden time' of future toleration, 'What's to come' is always unsure. Whether or not 'He died a papist', it is because we can never 'pluck out the heart' of his mystery that Shakespeare's plays retain their unique potential to resist.This is a fascinating work, which will be essential reading for all scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance studies.
