Shakespeare And The Culture Of Christianity In Early Modern England
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Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England
Author | : Dennis Taylor,David N. Beauregard |
Publsiher | : Studies in Religion and Litera |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : UOM:39015052881615 |
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The question of Shakespeare's Catholic contexts has occupied many scholars in recent years and this study brings together 16 original essays examining Shakespeare's work in the light of revisionist scholarship, from monastic life in 'Measure for Measure' to Puritanism in 'Hamlet'.
Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion
Author | : David Loewenstein,Michael Witmore |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2015-01-22 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781107026612 |
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This volume freshly illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs, practices and issues, and their representation in Shakespeare's plays.
Religion and Drama in Early Modern England
Author | : Elizabeth Williamson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781317068105 |
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Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and the complexities of religious culture, this collection reveals the ways in which religion and performance were inextricably linked in early modern England. Its readings extend beyond the interpretation of straightforward religious allusions and suggest new avenues for theorizing the dynamic relationship between religious representations and dramatic ones. By addressing the particular ways in which commercial drama adapted the sensory aspects of religious experience to its own symbolic systems, the volume enacts a methodological shift towards a more nuanced semiotics of theatrical performance. Covering plays by a wide range of dramatists, including Shakespeare, individual essays explore the material conditions of performance, the intricate resonances between dramatic performance and religious ceremonies, and the multiple valences of religious references in early modern plays. Additionally, Religion and Drama in Early Modern England reveals the theater's broad interpretation of post-Reformation Christian practice, as well as its engagement with the religions of Islam, Judaism and paganism.
Shakespeare and the Theater of Religious Conviction in Early Modern England
Author | : Walter S H Lim |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2024-01-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783031400063 |
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This book analyzes Shakespeare’s use of biblical allusions and evocation of doctrinal topics in Hamlet, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, Richard II, and The Merchant of Venice. It identifies references to theological and doctrinal commonplaces such as sin, grace, confession, damnation, and the Fall in these plays, affirming that Shakespeare’s literary imagination is very much influenced by his familiarity with the Bible and also with matters of church doctrine. This theological and doctrinal subject matter also derives its significance from genres as diverse as travel narratives, sermons, political treatises, and royal proclamations. This study looks at how Shakespeare’s deployment of religious topics interacts with ideas circulating via other cultural texts and genres in society. It also analyzes how religion enables Shakespeare’s engagement with cultural debates and political developments in England: absolutism and law; radical political theory; morality and law; and conceptions of nationhood.
The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama
Author | : Elizabeth Williamson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317024422 |
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The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama is the first book to present a detailed examination of early modern theatrical properties informed by the complexity of post-Reformation religious practice. Although English Protestant reformers set out to destroy all vestiges of Catholic idolatry, public theater companies frequently used stage properties to draw attention to the remnants of traditional religion as well as the persistent materiality of post-Reformation worship. The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama explores the relationship between popular culture and theatrical performance by considering the social history and dramatic function of these properties, addressing their role as objects of devotion, idolatry, and remembrance on the professional stage. Rather than being aligned with identifiably Catholic or Protestant values, the author reveals how religious stage properties functioned as fulcrums around which more subtle debates about the status of Christian worship played out. Given the relative lack of existing documentation on stage properties, The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama employs a wide range of source materials-including inventories published in the Records of Early English Drama (REED) volumes-to account for the material presence of these objects on the public stage. By combining historical research on popular religion with detailed readings of the scripts themselves, the book fills a gap in our knowledge about the physical qualities of the stage properties used in early modern productions. Tracing the theater's appropriation of highly charged religious properties, The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama provides a new framework for understanding the canonization of early modern plays, especially those of Shakespeare.
Shakespeare and Religion
Author | : Ken Jackson,Marotti |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-09-30 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0268206864 |
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Shakespeare and Religion examines the topic of religion in Shakespearean drama from two points of view: the historical, and that of postmodern philosophy and theology.
Religion and Culture in Renaissance England
Author | : Claire McEachern,Debora Shuger |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1997-06-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521584256 |
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These essays by leading historians and literary scholars investigate the role of religion in shaping political, social and literary forms, and their reciprocal role in shaping early modern religion, from the Reformation to the Civil Wars. Reflecting and rethinking the insights of new historicism and cultural studies, individual essays take up various aspects of the productive, if tense, relation between Tudor-Stuart Christianity and culture, and explore how religion informs some of the central texts of English Renaissance literature: the vernacular Bible, Foxe's Acts and Monuments, Hooker's Laws, Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, the poems of John Donne, Amelia Lanyer and John Milton. The collection demonstrates the centrality of religion to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, and its influence on early modern constructions of gender, subjectivity and nationhood.
Shakespeare and Religious Change
Author | : K. Graham,P. Collington |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2009-07-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780230240858 |
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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.