Shakespeare and the Theater of Religious Conviction in Early Modern England



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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.
Pages
290 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2023-12-19
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783031400056
EAN PDF
9783031400063

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2
Nombre pages imprimables
29
Taille du fichier
8294 Ko
Prix
126,59 €
EAN EPUB
9783031400063

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Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
29
Taille du fichier
532 Ko
Prix
126,59 €

Walter S H Lim is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Narratives of Diaspora: Representations of Asia in Chinese American Literature (2013); John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical Republicanism (2006); and The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism from Ralegh to Milton (1998). He also co-edited the collection The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia (2010).

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