Shakespeare And Protestant Poetics

Author : Jason Gleckman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789813295995

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Shakespeare and Protestant Poetics by Jason Gleckman Pdf

This book explores the impact of the sixteenth-century Reformation on the plays of William Shakespeare. Taking three fundamental Protestant concerns of the era – (double) predestination, conversion, and free will – it demonstrates how Protestant theologians, in England and elsewhere, re-imagined these longstanding Christian concepts from a specifically Protestant perspective. Shakespeare utilizes these insights to generate his distinctive view of human nature and the relationship between humans and God. Through in-depth readings of the Shakespeare comedies ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, and ‘Twelfth Night’, the romance ‘A Winter’s Tale’, and the tragedies of ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Hamlet’, this book examines the results of almost a century of Protestant thought upon literary art.

Author : E. Beatrice Batson
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781932792362

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Shakespeare's Christianity by E. Beatrice Batson Pdf

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 : Claire McEachern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108422246

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Believing in Shakespeare by Claire McEachern Pdf

A discussion of the connections between believing in Shakespeare's play and a post-Reformation understanding of salvation.

Author : K. Graham,P. Collington
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780230240858

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Shakespeare and Religious Change by K. Graham,P. Collington Pdf

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 : Russell A. Fraser
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0415352886

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Shakespeare's Poetics in Relation to King Lear by Russell A. Fraser Pdf

This volume gives as complete an account as possible of the Shakespearian experience, particularly in terms of one play, King Lear, but in general against the context of all of his work and that of the age in which it was created.

Author : Dennis Taylor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666902099

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Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation by Dennis Taylor Pdf

Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiation of Religious Difference explores how Shakespeare’s plays dramatize key issues of the Elizabethan Reformation, the conflict between the sacred, the critical, and the disenchanted; alternatively, the Catholic, the Protestant, and the secular. Each play imagines their reconciliation or the failure of reconcilation. The Catholic sacred is shadowed by its degeneration into superstition, Protestant critique by its unintended (fissaparous) consequences, the secular ordinary by stark disenchantment. Shakespeare shows how all three perspectives are needed if society is to face its intractable problems, thus providing a powerful model for our own ecumenical dialogues. Shakespeare begins with history plays contrasting the saintly but impractical King Henry VI, whose assassination is the ”primal crime,” with the pragmatic and secular Henry IV, until imagining in the later 1590’s how Hal can reconnect with sacred sources. At the same time in his comedies, Shakespeare imagines cooperative ways of resolving the national ”comedy of errors,” of sorting out erotic and marital and contemplative confusions by applying his triple lens. His late Elizabethan comedies achieve a polished balance of wit and devotion, ordinary and the sacred, old and new orders. Hamlet is Shakespeare’s ultimate Elizabethan consideration of these issues, its so-called lack of objective correlation a response to the unsorted trauma of the Reformation.

Author : Patrick Cheney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827461

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry by Patrick Cheney Pdf

This Companion provides a full introduction to the poetry of William Shakespeare through discussion of his freestanding narrative poems, the Sonnets, and his plays. Fourteen leading international scholars provide accessible and authoritative chapters on all relevant topics: from Shakespeare's seminal role in the development of English poetry, the wide-ranging practice of his poetic form, and his enigmatic place in print and manuscript culture, to his immersion in English Renaissance politics, religion, classicism, and gender dynamics. With individual chapters on Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Passionate Pilgrim, 'The Phoenix and the Turtle', the Sonnets, and A Lover's Complaint, the Companion also includes chapters on the presence of poetry in the dramatic works, on the relation between poetry and performance, and on the reception and influence of the poems. The volume includes a chronology of Shakespeare's life, a note on reference works, and a reading list for each chapter.

Author : Joel Fineman
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520360433

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Shakespeare's Perjured Eye by Joel Fineman Pdf

Fineman argues that in the sonnets Shakespeare developed an unprecedented poetic persona, one that subsequently became the governing model of all literary subjectivity. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

Author : Ekbert Faas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521308250

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Shakespeare's Poetics by Ekbert Faas Pdf

This book tackles the topic of how Shakespeare viewed his own craft and creativity.

Author : Thomas Moisan,Douglas Bruster
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 083863902X

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In the Company of Shakespeare by Thomas Moisan,Douglas Bruster Pdf

This book is an anthology of critical essays written about English literature during the Renaissance (or the 'early-modern' period). It focuses on Shakespeare's poetry and plays, including the 'Sonnets', 'The Phoenix and the Turtle', 'The Rape of Lucrece', 'King Lear', 'Othello', 'Measure for Measure', and 'Timon of Athens'. Also examined are the publication of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, William Cartwright's play 'The Royal Slave', and James Halliwell-Phillips, one of the central figures in the Shakespearean textual tradition.

Author : Kathryn Wills
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666708288

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A Sacerdotal Poetics by Kathryn Wills Pdf

This book offers a new way of understanding the old conflict between iconophiles and iconoclasts by exploring the way images in poetry are used by one poet, W. B. Yeats, and his translator, Yves Bonnefoy. Using the phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion as a tool of interpretation, the book suggests further that translation is a significant act in which one entire theological world of a Protestant poet may become a completely different, Catholic one when the translation is performed by a culturally Catholic poet. For Bonnefoy, therefore, the act of translation becomes a profound act of hope.

Author : David Lawrence Edwards
Publisher : Darton Longman and Todd
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015060813188

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Poets and God by David Lawrence Edwards Pdf

Reveals the relevance of six poets to the current quest for an authentic spirituality and will excite the reader to rediscover and enjoy their work. The great English poets are at the centre of a cultural heritage which goes along with the world-wide spread of the English language, yet they are now more often the object of study than of pleasure. Scholarly, entertaining and often provocative, Poets and God reveals their relevance to the current quest for an authentic spirituality in a mostly church-less society, and will excite the reader to rediscover and enjoy their work.

Author : Henry Reed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:HWPAPX

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Lectures on English History and Tragic Poetry, as Illustrated by Shakespeare by Henry Reed Pdf

Author : Camille Wells Slights
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400886579

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The Casuistical Tradition in Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton by Camille Wells Slights Pdf

To show how the casuistical tradition illuminates the study of major literary works in the English Renaissance, Camille Slights traces the emergence of casuistry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and discusses its influence on the moral imaginations of Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton. Originally published in 1981. 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 : Hugh Grady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134616398

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Shakespeare and Modernity by Hugh Grady Pdf

This in-depth collection of essays traces the changing reception of Shakespeare over the past four hundred years, during which time Shakespeare has variously been seen as the last great exponent of pre-modern Western culture, a crucial inaugurator of modernity, and a prophet of postmodernity. This fresh look at Shakespeare's plays is an important contribution to the revival of the idea of 'modernity' and how we periodise ourselves, and Shakespeare, at the beginning of a new millennium.