Shakespeare S Religious Language

Author : R. Chris Hassel Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472577276

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Shakespeare's Religious Language by R. Chris Hassel Jr. Pdf

Religious issues and discourse are key to an understanding of Shakespeare's plays and poems. This dictionary discusses over 1000 words and names in Shakespeare's works that have a religious connotation. Its unique word-by-word approach allows equal consideration of the full nuance of each of these words, from 'abbess' to 'zeal'. It also gradually reveals the persistence, the variety, and the sophistication of Shakespeare's religious usage. Frequent attention is given to the prominence of Reformation controversy in these words, and to Shakespeare's often ingenious and playful metaphoric usage of them. Theological commonplaces assume a major place in the dictionary, as do overt references to biblical figures, biblical stories and biblical place-names; biblical allusions; church figures and saints.

Author : R. Chris Hassel Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472577269

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Shakespeare's Religious Language by R. Chris Hassel Jr. Pdf

A major reference resource for all students and scholars of Shakespeare now available in paperback from the Arden Shakespeare.

Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780191004292

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A Will to Believe by David Scott Kastan Pdf

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 : R. Chris Hassel Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472577290

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Shakespeare's Religious Language by R. Chris Hassel Jr. Pdf

Religious issues and discourse are key to an understanding of Shakespeare's plays and poems. This dictionary discusses over 1000 words and names in Shakespeare's works that have a religious connotation. Its unique word-by-word approach allows equal consideration of the full nuance of each of these words, from 'abbess' to 'zeal'. It also gradually reveals the persistence, the variety, and the sophistication of Shakespeare's religious usage. Frequent attention is given to the prominence of Reformation controversy in these words, and to Shakespeare's often ingenious and playful metaphoric usage of them. Theological commonplaces assume a major place in the dictionary, as do overt references to biblical figures, biblical stories and biblical place-names; biblical allusions; church figures and saints.

Author : E. Beatrice Batson
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Maurice Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351149228

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Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness by Maurice Hunt Pdf

Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness complicates debates about whether Shakespeare's plays are fundamentally Protestant or Catholic in sympathy, challenging analyses that either find Protestant elements consistently undercutting Catholic motifs or, less often, discover evidence of the playwright's endorsement of Catholic doctrine and customs. Rather, Maurice Hunt argues that Shakespeare's syncretistic method of incorporating both Protestant and Catholic elements into his plays was singular among early modern English playwrights at a time when governmental and social tolerance of Protestantism in the theatre was high and criticism of stereotyped Catholicism was correspondingly rampant in drama. In-depth discussions of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, the Second Henriad, All's Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, and Othello reveal how Shakespeare allusively integrates Reformation Protestant and Roman Catholic motifs and systems of thought. This book sheds new light on the playwright's knowledge of and interest in Elizabethan and Jacobean religious debates over the nature of spiritual reformation, the efficacy of merit for redemption, and the operation of Providence. It will appeal not only to Shakespeare scholars but to those interested in the cultural history of the Reformation.

Author : K. Graham,P. Collington
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Graham Holderness
Publisher : Lion Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780745968926

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The Faith of William Shakespeare by Graham Holderness Pdf

William Shakespeare stills stands head and shoulders above any other author in the English language, a position that is unlikely ever to change. Yet it is often said that we know very little about him - and that applies as much to what he believed as it does to the rest of his biography. Or does it? In this authoritative new study, Graham Holderness takes us through the context of Shakespeare's life, times of religious and political turmoil, and looks at what we do know of Shakespeare the Anglican. But then he goes beyond that, and mines the plays themselves, not just for the words of the characters, but for the concepts, themes and language which Shakespeare was himself steeped in - the language of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. Considering particularly such plays as Richard ll, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, Othello, The Tempest and The Winter's Tale, Holderness shows how the ideas of Catholicism come up against those of Luther and Calvin; how Christianity was woven deep into Shakespeare's psyche, and how he brought it again and again to his art.

Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : David N. Beauregard
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780874130027

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Catholic Theology in Shakespeare's Plays by David N. Beauregard Pdf

Explores and reexamines Shakespeare's theology from the standpoint of revisionist history of the English Reformation.

Author : Beatrice Groves
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Robert Stevenson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789401538510

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Shakespeare’s Religious Frontier by Robert Stevenson Pdf

THIS slight volume is addressed not to Shakespearean special ists, but rather to the general public. My chief purpose has been to view Shakespeare's manipulation of his clergy. The last three chapters deal with ancillary problems. Two articles in this collection have already been published - "Shakespeare's Cardinals and Bishops" in The Crozer Quarterry, April, 1950; "Shakespeare's Interest in Harsnet's Declaration" in Publications of the Modern Language Association, September, 1952. I appreciate the Editors' permission to reprint these essays in the present volume. I also thank Professors Gerald Eades Bentley and Lily Bess Campbell for encourage ment and advice during the writing of the first, fifth, and last pieces in this collection. Neither is however to be held re sponsible for any errors discovered by reviewers. All of the essays in this volume except the first were written either at The Folger Shakespeare Library in 1950 or at The Huntington Library in 1952. I thank the directors and staffs of both libraries for their many exceptional kindnesses. Miss Mary Neighbour of Oxford has placed me further in her debt by typing the completed collection.

Author : OAKLEY MARK
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0281077509

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SPIRITUAL ADVENTURE LANGUAGE by OAKLEY MARK Pdf

Author : Alison Shell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : 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