Religions in Shakespeare's Writings
Title | Religions in Shakespeare's Writings PDF eBook |
Author | David V. Urban |
Publisher | MDPI |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2020-12-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3039281941 |
Offering a wide range of scholarly perspectives, Religions in Shakespeare’s Writings explores Shakespeare’s depictions, throughout his canon, of various religions and matters related to them. This collection’s fifteen essays explore matters pertaining to Catholic, Anglican, and Puritan Christianity, the Albigensian heresy of the high middle ages, Islam, Judaism, Roman religion, different manifestations of religious paganism, and even the “religion of Shakespeare” practiced by Shakespeare’s nineteenth-century admirers. These essays analyze how Shakespeare depicts both tensions between religions and the syntheses of different religious expressions on topics as diverse as Shakespeare’s varied portrayals of the afterlife, religious experience in Measure for Measure, and Black natural law and The Tempest. This collection also explores the political ramifications of religion within Shakespeare’s works, as well as Shakespeare’s multifaceted uses of the Bible. Additionally, while this collection does not present a Shakespeare whose particular religious beliefs can definitely be known or are displayed uniformly throughout his canon, various essays consider to what extent Shakespeare’s individual works demonstrate a Christian foundation. Contributors include John D. Cox, Cyndia Susan Clegg, Grace Tiffany, Matthew J. Smith, Bethany C. Besteman, Sarah Skwire, Feisal Mohamed, Benedict J. Whalen, Benjamin Lockerd, Bryan Adams Hampton, Debra Johanyak, John E. Curran, Emily E. Stelzer, David V. Urban, and Julia Reinhard Lupton.
A Will to Believe
Title | A Will to Believe PDF eBook |
Author | David Scott Kastan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0199572895 |
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.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Hannibal Hamlin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2019-03-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107172594 |
A wide-ranging yet accessible investigation into the importance of religion in Shakespeare's works, from a team of eminent international scholars.
Religions in Shakespeare's Writings
Title | Religions in Shakespeare's Writings PDF eBook |
Author | David V. Urban |
Publisher | |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783039281954 |
Offering a wide range of scholarly perspectives, Religions in Shakespeare's Writings explores Shakespeare's depictions, throughout his canon, of various religions and matters related to them. This collection's fifteen essays explore matters pertaining to Catholic, Anglican, and Puritan Christianity, the Albigensian heresy of the high middle ages, Islam, Judaism, Roman religion, different manifestations of religious paganism, and even the “religion of Shakespeare” practiced by Shakespeare's nineteenth-century admirers. These essays analyze how Shakespeare depicts both tensions between religions and the syntheses of different religious expressions on topics as diverse as Shakespeare's varied portrayals of the afterlife, religious experience in Measure for Measure, and Black natural law and The Tempest. This collection also explores the political ramifications of religion within Shakespeare's works, as well as Shakespeare's multifaceted uses of the Bible. Additionally, while this collection does not present a Shakespeare whose particular religious beliefs can definitely be known or are displayed uniformly throughout his canon, various essays consider to what extent Shakespeare's individual works demonstrate a Christian foundation. Contributors include John D. Cox, Cyndia Susan Clegg, Grace Tiffany, Matthew J. Smith, Bethany C. Besteman, Sarah Skwire, Feisal Mohamed, Benedict J. Whalen, Benjamin Lockerd, Bryan Adams Hampton, Debra Johanyak, John E. Curran, Emily E. Stelzer, David V. Urban, and Julia Reinhard Lupton.
Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion
Title | Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion PDF eBook |
Author | David Loewenstein |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2015-01-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1316239810 |
Written by an international team of literary scholars and historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions of Protestantism, Catholicism, non-Christian religions including Judaism and Islam, and secular perspectives, considering plays such as Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King John, King Lear, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale. The collection is of great interest to readers of Shakespeare studies, early modern literature, religious studies, and early modern history.
The Religion of Shakespeare
Title | The Religion of Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Simpson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 454 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Mortal Thoughts
Title | Mortal Thoughts PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Cummings |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2013-08-22 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0199677719 |
Mortal Thoughts is a study of the question of human identity in the early modern period. It examines literature alongside emerging forms of life writing and life drawing and self-portraits and considers portrayals of mortality and the moment of death.