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xiv, 479 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-459) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. First explorations in history and comedy: Henry VI to Love's Labour's Lost: The chronicle plays: an overview ; The first tetralogy ; Shakespeare's early comedies ; Shakespeare's narrative poems ; Interlude: Shakespeare and dialogue -- Part II. Mid-Elizabethan accomplishments: King John to Henry V: Shakespeare and the Mid-Elizabethan nineties ; The second tetralogy -- Part III. Climax of the Elizabethan decade: Much Ado About Nothing to Hamlet: The high comedies of the late 1590s ; Hamlet. |
| Summary |
"Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation explores how Shakespeare responded in drama to the historical trauma of the Elizabethan Reformation. Shakespeare creatively engaged Catholic, Protestant, and secular points of view, and suggested new and interesting syntheses in play after play, thus providing models for today's ecumenical dialogues"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiation of Religious Difference explores how Shakespeare's plays dramatize key issues of the Elizabethan Reformation, the conflict between the sacred, the critical, and the disenchanted; alternatively, the Catholic, the Protestant, and the secular. Each play imagines their reconciliation or the failure of reconciliation. The Catholic sacred is shadowed by its degeneration into superstition, Protestant critique by its unintended (fissaparous) consequences, the secular ordinary by stark disenchantment. Shakespeare shows how all three perspectives are needed if society is to face its intractable problems, thus providing a powerful model for our own ecumenical dialogues. Shakespeare begins with history plays contrasting the saintly but impractical King Henry VI, whose assassination is the "primal crime," with the pragmatic and secular Henry IV, until imagining in the later 1590's how Hal can reconnect with sacred sources. At the same time in his comedies, Shakespeare imagines cooperative ways of resolving the national "comedy of errors," of sorting out erotic and marital and contemplative confusions by applying his triple lens. His late Elizabethan comedies achieve a polished balance of wit and devotion, ordinary and the sacred, old and new orders. Hamlet is Shakespeare's ultimate Elizabethan consideration of these issues, its so-called lack of objective correlation a response to the unsorted trauma of the Reformation." -- Publisher's description |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Religion.
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Religion and drama.
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Religious thought -- England.
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Religion in literature.
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Religion and literature.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (OCoLC)fst00029048
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Religion (OCoLC)fst01093763
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Religion and drama (OCoLC)fst01093827
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Religion and literature (OCoLC)fst01093839
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Religious thought (OCoLC)fst01094322
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England (OCoLC)fst01219920
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| ISBN |
9781666902082 hardcover |
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166690208X hardcover |
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9781666902105 paperback |
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9781666902099 electronic book |
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1666902098 electronic book |
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1666902101 paperback |
| Standard No. |
40031299493 |
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