Shakespeare S Christian Dimension

Author : Roy Wesley Battenhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994-05-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015032535398

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Shakespeare's Christian Dimension by Roy Wesley Battenhouse Pdf

"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 : Jenny Wong
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781532638152

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The Translatability of the Religious Dimension in Shakespeare from Page to Stage, from West to East by Jenny Wong Pdf

This interdisciplinary study traverses the disciplines of translation studies, hermeneutics, theater studies, and sociology. Under the “power turn” or “political turn” in translation studies, the omission and untranslatability of religious material are often seen as the product of censorship or self-censorship. But the theology of each individual translating agent is often neglected as a contributing factor to such untranslatability. This book comprehensively traces the hermeneutical process of the translators as readers, and the situational process and semiotics of theater translation. Together these factors contribute to an image of translated literature that in turn influences the literature’s reception. While translation theorists influenced by the current “sociological turn” view social factors as determining translation activities and strategies, this volume argues that the translator’s or the dramatist’s theology and religious values interact with the socio-cultural milieu to carve out a unique drama production. Often it is the religious values of the translating agents that determine the product, rather than social factors. Further, the translatability of religious discourse should be understood in a broader sense according to the seven dimensions proposed by Ninian Smart, rather than merely focusing on untranslatability as a result of semantic and linguistic differences.

Author : E. Beatrice Batson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Christian drama, English
ISBN : UOM:39015059313919

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Shakespeare's Second Historical Tetralogy by E. Beatrice Batson Pdf

Author : E. Beatrice Batson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111980384

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Selected Comedies and Late Romances of Shakespeare from a Christian Perspective by E. Beatrice Batson Pdf

Author : Michael Scott,Michael Collins
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781648895180

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Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark by Michael Scott,Michael Collins Pdf

Christian Shakespeare? The question was put to each contributor to this collection of essays. They received no further guidance about how to understand the question nor how to shape their responses. No particular theoretical approach, no shared definition of the question was required or encouraged. Rather, they were free to join, in whatever way they thought useful, the extensive discourse about the impact that the Christian faith and the religious controversies of Shakespeare’s time had on his poems and plays. The range of responses points not only to openness of Shakespeare’s work to interpretation, but to the seriousness with which the writers reflected on the question and to their careful and sensitive reading of the poems and plays. The heterogeneity of Shakespeare’s world is reflected in the heterogeneity of the essays, each an individual response to the complex question they engage. In the end, what the plays and poems reveal about Shakespeare’s Christianity remains unclear, and that lack of clarity has also contributed to the variety of responses in the collection. All the essays recognize, to some degree or another, that the tension in Shakespeare’s world between old and new, medieval and early modern, Catholic and Protestant, brought uncertainty (and in some cases anxiety) to the minds and hearts of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. But what Shakespeare himself believed, how he responded in his work to the religious turmoil of his time remains uncertain. For some of the contributors Shakespeare’s plays are inescapably indeterminate (even evasive) and open to a multiplicity of possible readings. For others, Shakespeare takes a stand and, through the careful patterning of his plays, speaks more or less unambiguously to the religious and political issues of his time. Together the essays reflect the varied ways in which the question of Shakespeare’s Christianity might be answered.

Author : E. Beatrice Batson
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Arjan Plaisier
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620320600

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Deep Wisdom from Shakespeare's Dramas by Arjan Plaisier Pdf

Arjan Plaisier believes audiences who view Shakespeare performances and readers who study the plays deserve better than some of the recent interpretations of the Bard's work. In their attempt to be "modern," these interpreters commit historical amnesia by slighting the Christian ethos of the early Renaissance period in which Shakespeare wrote and by riding roughshod over the religious underpinnings of his plays. This neglect skews the playwright's intentions, confuses the audience, and diminishes the full effect of the play. Plaisier, too, is modern--and in a more profound sense. He sets forth how Shakespeare shapes his plots to conform at an ultimate level to timeless biblical narrative patterns (like Northrop Frye, he regards the Bible as a "code book"), so that there is a "right" ending to the work. And in an Appendix, Plaisier provides some kindly advice to his fellow pastors. You do well, he says to them, to enrich your noble calling with attention to literature. To do this, he says, you will find Shakespeare most helpful. Yes, and Plaisier's perceptive essays point to the deep wisdom in Shakespeare by which we can all live.

Author : Alison Shell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408143612

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Shakespeare and Religion by Alison Shell Pdf

This book sets Shakespeare in the religious context of his times, presenting a balanced, up-to-date account of current biographical and critical debates, and addressing the fascinating, under-studied topic of how Shakespeare's writing was perceived by literary contemporaries - both Catholic and Protestant - whose priorities were more obviously religious than his own. It advances new readings of several plays, especially Hamlet, King Lear and The Winter's Tale; these draw in many cases on new and under-exploited contemporary analogues, ranging from conversion narratives, books of devotion and polemical pamphlets to manuscript drama and emblems. Shakespeare's writing has been seen both as profoundly religious, giving everyday human life a sacramental quality, and as profoundly secular, foreshadowing the kind of humanism that sees no necessity for God. This study attempts to reconcile these two points of view, describing a writer whose language is saturated in religious discourse and whose dramaturgy is highly attentive to religious precedent, but whose invariable practice is to subordinate religious matter to the particular aesthetic demands of the work in hand. For Shakespeare, as for few of his contemporaries, the Judaeo-Christian story is something less than a master narrative.

Author : E. Beatrice Batson
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0773494251

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The Christian Dimension of Shakespearean Drama by E. Beatrice Batson Pdf

Author : Richard Dutton,Jean E. Howard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405136075

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A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume III by Richard Dutton,Jean E. Howard Pdf

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre. Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century. This companion to Shakespeare's comedies contains original essays on every comedy from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Twelfth Night as well as twelve additional articles on such topics as the humoral body in Shakespearean comedy, Shakespeare's comedies on film, Shakespeare's relation to other comic writers of his time, Shakespeare's cross-dressing comedies, and the geographies of Shakespearean comedy.

Author : Eric Harber
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Robert H. West
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813183596

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Shakespeare and the Outer Mystery by Robert H. West Pdf

Shakespeare has been viewed by critics both as a secular writer who affirmed the dual nature of man and as a Christian allegorist whose work has a submerged but positive and elaborate pattern of Christian meaning. In Shakespeare and the Outer Mystery, Robert H. West explores the philosophical and supernatural elements of five Shakespearean dramas—Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and The Tempest. Through his analysis, West discovers Shakespeare's respect for the mysteries of existence but no clear definition of the philosophical and moral context of his play worlds. An artistic motivation leads Shakespeare to use these elements ambiguously to create a dramatic effect rather than to teach a moral or ideological lesson.

Author : Roland Mushat Frye
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Adrian Poole,Peter Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472578624

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Great Shakespeareans Set III by Adrian Poole,Peter Holland Pdf

Great Shakespeareans presents a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. This major project offers an unprecedented scholarly analysis of the contribution made by the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors as well as novelists, poets, composers, and thinkers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. An essential resource for students and scholars in Shakespeare studies.

Author : P. Cefalu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403973658

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Revisionist Shakespeare by P. Cefalu Pdf

Revisionist Shakespeare appropriates revisionist history in order to both criticize traditional transitional interpretations of Shakespearean drama and to offer a new methodology for understanding representations of social conflict in Shakespeare's play and in Early Modern English culture. Rather than argue that Shakespearean drama allegorizes historical transitions and ideological polarization, Revisionist Shakespeare argues that Shakespeare's plays explore the nature of internally contradictory Early Modern institutions and belief-systems that are only indirectly related to competing political and class ideologies. Such institutions and belief-systems include Elizabethan strategies for the management of vagrancy, the nature of Jacobean statecraft, objective and subjective theories of economic value, Protestant ethical theory, and Augustinian notions of sinful habituation. The book looks at five of Shakespeare's plays: The Tempest , Coriolanus , The Merchant of Venice , King Lear , and Hamlet .