Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England /

Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England / / ed. by Dennis Taylor, David N. Beauregard.

The question of Shakespeare’s Catholic contexts has occupied many scholars in recent years, and their growing body of work has been enriched by revisionist accounts of the Reformation society and culture in which he lived and worked. This innovative book brings together sixteen original essays by le...

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MitwirkendeR:
Asquith, Clare,
Beauregard, David,
Buccola, Regina M.,
Dutton, Richard,
Freeman, John,
Goodland, Katharine,
Hamilton, Gary D.,
Hassel Jr., R. Chris,
Hopkins, Lisa,
Hunt, Maurice,
Klause, John,
Mallette, Richard,
Mayer, Jean- Christophe,
McQuade, Paula,
Rosendale, Timothy,
Rust, jennifer,
Taylor, Dennis,
HerausgeberIn:
Beauregard, David N.,
Taylor, Dennis,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2004
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Studies in Religion and Literature
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Physical Description:1 online resource (451 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction: Shakespeare and the Reformation
  • 1 The Comedy of Errors and The Calumny of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study
  • 2 "Obsequious Laments": Mourning and Communal Memory in Shakespeare's Richard III
  • 3 Oxford University and Love's Labour's Lost
  • 4 Shakespeare's Religious Background Revisited: Richard II in a New Context
  • 5 Sacral and Sacramental Kingship in the Lancastrian Tetralogy
  • 6 Mocking Oldcastle: Notes Toward Exploring a Possible Catholic Presence in Shakespeare's Henriad
  • 7 Shakespeare's Fairy Dance with Religio-Political Controversy in The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • 8 Catholic and Protestant, Jesuit and Jew: Historical Religion in The Merchant of Venice
  • 9 This Side of Purgatory: Ghostly Fathers and the Recusant Legacy in Hamlet
  • 10 Wittenberg and Melancholic Allegory: The Reformation and Its Discontents in Hamlet
  • 11 The Accent and Gait of Christians: Hamlet's Puritan Style
  • 12 Shakespeare on Monastic Life: Nuns and Friars in Measure for Measure
  • 13 Helena and the Reformation Problem of Merit in All's Well That Ends Well
  • 14 Paris Is Worth a Mass: All's Well That Ends Well and the Wars of Religion
  • 15 Blasphemous Preacher: Iago and the Reformation
  • 16 Love and Lies: Marital Truth-Telling, Catholic Casuistry, and Othello
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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