Shakespeare Christianity And Italian Paganism

Author : Eric Harber
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781527561076

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Shakespeare, Christianity and Italian Paganism by Eric Harber Pdf

This book shows that, when Shakespeare wrote his plays, he responded to the political, religious and social conflicts in the Christianity of the day, giving those areas a new perspective through pagan (Italian and Greek) mythology. In particular, it offers a reading of The Winter’s Tale, which it has been said is “one of the most linguistically dense, emotionally demanding and spiritually rich of all the plays”. Productions as far afield as Mexico and Paris have brought Shakespeare’s plays up to date to enhance or challenge the lives of their communities. From South Africa to Gdansk, Shakespeare has been adapted to be read in schools. His plays have prompted a dialogue with many European scholars whom this book addresses.

Author : Theodora Porter Coxon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89085966778

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Paganism in Shakespeare by Theodora Porter Coxon Pdf

Author : Jane Everingham Nelson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004520608

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Shakespeare and religio mentis by Jane Everingham Nelson Pdf

This landmark interdisciplinary study shines the light of religious Hermetism on Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear, Othello and The Tempest and reveals the ‘religion of the mind’ found in the Corpus Hermeticum to be a source of Shakespeare’s understanding of human psychology.

Author : Robin Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317898429

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English and Italian Literature From Dante to Shakespeare by Robin Kirkpatrick Pdf

This is the first comprehensive critical comparison of English and Italian literature from the three centuries from Dante to Shakespeare. It begins by examining Chaucer's relationship with Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, and then looks at similar relationships within the areas of humanist education, lyric poetry, the epic, theatrical comedy, the short story and the pastoral drama. It provides a detailed comparison of major works from both traditions including descriptive and critical readings of Italian works. It shows why English writers valued such works and demonstrates the ways in which they departed from or tried to outdo the Italian original. Assuming no prior knowledge of Italy or Italian literary history, this book introduces the student and general reader to one of the most important and fascinating phases in European literary history.

Author : Michele Marrapodi
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0719066662

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Shakespeare, Italy, and Intertextuality by Michele Marrapodi Pdf

Newly available in paperback, this collection of essays, written by distinguished international scholars, focuses on the structural influence of Italian literature, culture and society at large on Shakespeare's dramatic canon. Exploring recent methodological trends coming from Anglo-American new historicism and cultural materialism and innovative analyses of intertextuality, the volume's four thematic sections deal with 'Theory and practice', 'Culture and tradition', 'Text and ideology' and 'Stage and spectacle'.In their own views and critical perspectives, the individual chapters throw fresh light on the dramatist's pliable technique of dramatic construction and break new ground in the field of influence studies and intertextuality as a whole.A rich bibliography of secondary literature and a detailed index round off the volume.

Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199572892

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A Will to Believe by David Scott Kastan Pdf

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 : Ivor Morris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135032586

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Shakespeare's God by Ivor Morris Pdf

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 : Roland Mushat Frye
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400878932

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Shakespeare and Christian Doctrine by Roland Mushat Frye Pdf

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 : Beatrice Groves
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199208982

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Texts and Traditions by Beatrice Groves Pdf

Explores Shakespeare's engagement with the religious culture of his time. Through readings of a number of plays - "Romeo and Juliet", "King John", "1 Henry IV", "Henry V", and "Measure for Measure", this work explains allusions to the Bible, the Church's liturgy, and to the mystery plays performed in England in Shakespeare's boyhood.

Author : Peter Milward
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Christian drama, English
ISBN : UCSC:32106007629154

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Shakespeare's Religious Background by Peter Milward Pdf

Author : Alex Schulman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748682423

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Rethinking Shakespeare's Political Philosophy by Alex Schulman Pdf

What were Shakespeare's politics? As this study demonstrates, contained in Shakespeare's plays is an astonishingly powerful reckoning with the tradition of Western political thought, one whose depth and scope places Shakespeare alongside Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes and others. This book is the first attempt by a political theorist to read Shakespeare within the trajectory of political thought as one of the authors of modernity. From Shakespeare's interpretation of ancient and medieval politics to his wrestling with issues of legitimacy, religious toleration, family conflict, and economic change, Alex Schulman shows how Shakespeare produces a fascinating map of modern politics at its crisis-filled birth. As a result, there are brand new readings of Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear, Richard II and Henry IV, parts I and II , The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure.

Author : E. Beatrice Batson
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : William Ewart Gladstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MSU:31293106910023

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Thoughts from the Writings and Speeches of William Ewart Gladstone by William Ewart Gladstone Pdf

Author : Hannibal Hamlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107172593

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion by Hannibal Hamlin Pdf

A wide-ranging yet accessible investigation into the importance of religion in Shakespeare's works, from a team of eminent international scholars.

Author : Sean Benson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820705071

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Shakespearean Resurrection by Sean Benson Pdf

This engaging book demonstrates Shakespeare’s abiding interest in the theatrical potential of the Christian resurrection from the dead. In fourteen of Shakespeare’s plays, characters who have been lost, sometimes for years, suddenly reappear seemingly returning from the dead. In the classical recognition scene, such moments are explained away in naturalistic terms a character was lost at sea but survived, or abducted and escaped, and so on. Shakespeare never invalidates such explanations, but in his manipulation of classical conventions he parallels these moments with the recognition scenes from the Gospels, repeatedly evoking Christ’s resurrection from the dead. Benson’s close study of the plays, as well as the classical and biblical sources that Shakespeare fuses into his recognition scenes, clearly elucidates the ways in which the playwright explored his abiding interest in the human desire to transcend death and to live reunited and reconciled with others. In his manipulation of resurrection imagery, Shakespeare conflates the material with the immaterial, the religious with the secular, and the sacred with the profane.