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Author : David Loewenstein,Michael Witmore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107026612
This volume freshly illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs, practices and issues, and their representation in Shakespeare's plays.
Author : Ken Jackson,Marotti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0268206864
Shakespeare and Religion examines the topic of religion in Shakespearean drama from two points of view: the historical, and that of postmodern philosophy and theology.
Author : Kristen Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521025443
Study of religious non-conformity in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.
Author : Elizabeth Williamson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317068105
Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and the complexities of religious culture, this collection reveals the ways in which religion and performance were inextricably linked in early modern England. Its readings extend beyond the interpretation of straightforward religious allusions and suggest new avenues for theorizing the dynamic relationship between religious representations and dramatic ones. By addressing the particular ways in which commercial drama adapted the sensory aspects of religious experience to its own symbolic systems, the volume enacts a methodological shift towards a more nuanced semiotics of theatrical performance. Covering plays by a wide range of dramatists, including Shakespeare, individual essays explore the material conditions of performance, the intricate resonances between dramatic performance and religious ceremonies, and the multiple valences of religious references in early modern plays. Additionally, Religion and Drama in Early Modern England reveals the theater's broad interpretation of post-Reformation Christian practice, as well as its engagement with the religions of Islam, Judaism and paganism.
Author : Dennis Taylor,David N. Beauregard
Publisher : Studies in Religion and Litera
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015052881615
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 : Elizabeth Williamson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317024422
The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama is the first book to present a detailed examination of early modern theatrical properties informed by the complexity of post-Reformation religious practice. Although English Protestant reformers set out to destroy all vestiges of Catholic idolatry, public theater companies frequently used stage properties to draw attention to the remnants of traditional religion as well as the persistent materiality of post-Reformation worship. The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama explores the relationship between popular culture and theatrical performance by considering the social history and dramatic function of these properties, addressing their role as objects of devotion, idolatry, and remembrance on the professional stage. Rather than being aligned with identifiably Catholic or Protestant values, the author reveals how religious stage properties functioned as fulcrums around which more subtle debates about the status of Christian worship played out. Given the relative lack of existing documentation on stage properties, The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama employs a wide range of source materials-including inventories published in the Records of Early English Drama (REED) volumes-to account for the material presence of these objects on the public stage. By combining historical research on popular religion with detailed readings of the scripts themselves, the book fills a gap in our knowledge about the physical qualities of the stage properties used in early modern productions. Tracing the theater's appropriation of highly charged religious properties, The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama provides a new framework for understanding the canonization of early modern plays, especially those of Shakespeare.
Author : Brian Cummings
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199677719
Mortal Thoughts is a study of the question of human identity in the early modern period. It examines literature alongside emerging forms of life writing and life drawing and self-portraits and considers portrayals of mortality and the moment of death.
Author : Peter Iver Kaufman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271069586
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 : K. Graham,P. Collington
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780230240858
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 : Richard Dutton,Alison Gail Findlay,Richard Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0719063639
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Author : Professor David K. Anderson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472428288
Focusing on Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Webster and John Milton, Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England argues that the English tragedians reflected an unease within the culture to acts of religious violence. David Anderson explores a link between the unstable emotional response of society to religious executions in the Tudor-Stuart period, and the revival of tragic drama as a major cultural form for the first time since classical antiquity.
Author : Hannibal Hamlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107172593
A wide-ranging yet accessible investigation into the importance of religion in Shakespeare's works, from a team of eminent international scholars.
Author : Matthew J. Smith
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780268104689
In Performance and Religion in Early Modern England, Matthew J. Smith seeks to expand our view of “the theatrical.” By revealing the creative and phenomenal ways that performances reshaped religious material in early modern England, he offers a more inclusive and integrative view of performance culture. Smith argues that early modern theatrical and religious practices are better understood through a comparative study of multiple performance types: not only commercial plays but also ballads, jigs, sermons, pageants, ceremonies, and festivals. Our definition of performance culture is augmented by the ways these events looked, sounded, felt, and even tasted to their audiences. This expanded view illustrates how the post-Reformation period utilized new capabilities brought about by religious change and continuity alike. Smith posits that theatrical practice at this time was acutely aware of its power not just to imitate but to work performatively, and to create spaces where audiences could both imaginatively comprehend and immediately enact their social, festive, ethical, and religious overtures. Each chapter in the book builds on the previous ones to form a cumulative overview of early modern performance culture. This book is unique in bringing this variety of performance types, their archives, venues, and audiences together at the crossroads of religion and theater in early modern England. Scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and those generally interested in the Renaissance will enjoy this book.
Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780191004292
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 : Lieke Stelling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108477031
A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.