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Author | : E. Beatrice Batson |
Publisher | : Baylor University Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1932792368 |
Download Shakespeare's Christianity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Peter Iver Kaufman |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2015-06-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0271069589 |
Download Religion Around Shakespeare Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0199572895 |
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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 | : Roy Wesley Battenhouse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1994-05-22 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Download Shakespeare's Christian Dimension Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"An impressive collection of ninety-two abridged essays identifying the Christian elements in Shakespeare's plays . . . a great feast of learning and beauty." —First Things "This is an exceptionally valuable book . . . very highly recommended" —Sixteenth Century Journal " . . . an exemplary work. In an age when footling matters often replace the great religious quandaries about what it means to live and die before God, Shakespeare's Christian Dimension helps restore our focus." —Pro Ecclesia This anthology reprints abridged versions of 92 critical commentaries on the influence of Shakespeare's Christian heritage on the shaping of his plays. It does not attempt to be exhaustive in its coverage, but to provide a useful sampling of valuable work. A supplementary bibliography of more than 250 further items encourages interested readers to further exploration.
Author | : Lee Oser |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2022-05-06 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0813235103 |
Download Christian Humanism in Shakespeare Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Shakespeare, Lee Oser argues, is a Christian literary artist who criticizes and challenges Christians, but who does so on Christian grounds. Stressing Shakespeare’s theological sensitivity, Oser places Shakespeare’s work in the “radical middle,” the dialectical opening between the sacred and the secular where great writing can flourish. According to Oser, the radical middle was and remains a site of cultural originality, as expressed through mimetic works of art intended for a catholic (small “c”) audience. It describes the conceptual space where Shakespeare was free to engage theological questions, and where his Christian skepticism could serve his literary purposes. Oser reviews the rival cases for a Protestant Shakespeare and for a Catholic Shakespeare, but leaves the issue open, focusing, instead, on how Shakespeare exploits artistic resources that are specific to Christianity, including the classical-Christian rhetorical tradition. The scope of the book ranges from an introductory survey of the critical field as it now stands, to individual chapters on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, the Henriad, Hamlet, and King Lear. Writing with a deep sense of literary history, Oser holds that mainstream literary criticism has created a false picture of Shakespeare by secularizing him and misconstruing the nature of his art. Through careful study of the plays, Oser recovers a Shakespeare who is less vulnerable to the winds of academic and political fashion, and who is a friend to the enduring project of humanistic education. Christian Humanism in Shakespeare: A Study in Religion and Literature is both eminently readable and a work of consequence.
Author | : Naseeb Shaheen |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 896 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780874136777 |
Download Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Analyzes the biblical references that Shakespeare makes in his plays, surveying the different English Bibles available to Shakespeare, and pointing out which of these he referred to most often (the King James version only appeared near the end of his career). Also examines biblical references found in literary source material used by Shakespeare to determine whether he used or adapted these or added others from his own memory; and what these allusions would have meant to audiences of the time.--From publisher description.
Author | : Ira B. Zinman |
Publisher | : World Wisdom Books |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Download Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Bible Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The extent to which Shakespeare derived the inspiration for his plays and Sonnets from the Bible has sparked debate for centuries. Although much research has been done on Shakespeare's plays, a comprehensive analysis of his Sonnets has been absent, until now. This book gives a detailed examination of Shakespeare's Sonnets, identifying their underlying spiritual themes at the religious and scriptural levels of interpretation.
Author | : Ivor Morris |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Christian drama, English |
ISBN | : 9780415353243 |
Download Shakespeare's God Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First published in 1972. Shakespeare's God investigates whether a religious interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedies is possible. The study places Christianity's commentary on the human condition side by side with what tragedy reveals about it. This pattern is identified using the writings of Christian thinkers from Augustine to the present day. The pattern in the chief phenomena of literary tragedy is also traced
Author | : Graham Holderness |
Publisher | : Lion Books |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2016-11-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0745968929 |
Download The Faith of William Shakespeare Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Hannibal Hamlin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2019-03-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107172594 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A wide-ranging yet accessible investigation into the importance of religion in Shakespeare's works, from a team of eminent international scholars.