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Texts and traditions : religion in Shakespeare, 1592-1604 / Beatrice Groves.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Groves, Beatrice, 1978-
- Series:
- Oxford English monographs.
- Oxford English monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity and literature--England--History--16th century.
- Christianity and literature.
- Christian drama, English--History and criticism.
- Christian drama, English.
- Catholics--England--History--16th century.
- Catholics.
- Religion in literature.
- England--Church history--16th century.
- England.
- Bible--In literature.
- Bible.
- Catholic Church--In literature.
- Catholic Church.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Religion.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores Shakespeare's engagement with the religious culture of his time. It unearths previously unrecognised allusions to the Bible and the liturgy as well as to the medieval mystery plays. It argues that we need to unravel the interpretative possibilities of these religious nuances in order to understand these ostensibly secular plays. - ;Texts and Traditions explores Shakespeare's thoroughgoing engagement with the religious culture of his time. In the wake of the recent resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's Catholicism, Groves eschews a reductively biographical approach and cons
- Contents:
- Drama and the word : the Bible on the early modern stage
- Shakespeare's incarnational aesthetic : the mystery plays and Catholicism
- Comedic form and Paschal motif in the first and second quartos of Romeo and Juliet
- "I am not he shall buyld the Lord a house" : religious imagery and the succession to the English throne in King John
- "Covering discretion with a coat of folly" : the redemptive self-fashioning of Hal
- "Usurp the beggary he was never born to" : Measure for measure and the questioning of divine kingship.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-221) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-151414-4
- 1-280-75836-8
- 1-4294-6001-6
- OCLC:
- 476245156
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