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Bloomsbury Shakespeare and Religion (Arden Critical Companions)

Name: Shakespeare and Religion (Arden Critical Companions)
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Product Description 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. Review 'A hot topic these days...anyone wishing to know more about all this could well start with Alison Shell's excellent survey in the new Arden series of Critical Companions. Shell knows the religious quarrels of early modern Britain as well as anyone, and she is a trustworthy guide through the complexities of high and not-so-high Calvinism and, in a brief and refreshing section, the literature of oppositional and underground Catholicism- a relatively new field of study...' --Neil Forsyth, Times Literary Supplement About the Author Alison Shell is Professor of English at Durham University.

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Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1904271707
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Drama > Type
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 25 October 2010
Listed Since: 16 October 2006

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