Shakespeare and Early Modern ReligionDavid Loewenstein, Michael Witmore Cambridge University Press, 22 sty 2015 - 317 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. |
Spis treści
Introduction | 1 |
revisiting religious contexts | 12 |
The debate about Shakespeare and religion | 23 |
Choosing sides and talking religion in Shakespeares England | 40 |
diversity and choice | 57 |
Delusion in A Midsummer Nights Dream | 81 |
The siege of Jerusalem and subversive rhetoric in King John | 96 |
Shakespeares Julius Caesar and the search for a usable | 111 |
the godless world of King Lear | 155 |
Another Golgotha | 172 |
Shakespeare and wisdom literature | 191 |
Awakening faith in The Winters Tale | 214 |
a postsecular | 231 |
truth history and historical faith | 258 |
Shakespeares nonChristian religions | 280 |
Afterword | 300 |
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