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Believing in Shakespeare : studies in longing / Claire McEachern, University of California, Los Angeles.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR3011 .M44 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McEachern, Claire, 1963- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Protestantism and literature.
- History.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Religion.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Religion.
- Protestantism and literature--History.
- Belief and doubt in literature.
- Faith in literature.
- Empathy in literature.
- Religion and drama--Christianity.
- Religion and drama.
- Christianity.
- Religion in literature.
- Drama--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "Believing in Shakespeare Studies in Longing -- This ground breaking and accessible study explores the connections between the English Reformation's impact on the belief in eternal salvation and how it affected ways of believing in the plays of Shakespeare. Claire McEachern examines the new and better faith that Protestantism imagined for itself, a faith in which scepticism did not erode belief, but worked to substantiate it in ways that were both affectively positive and empirically positivist. Concluding with in-depth readings of Richard II, King Lear and The Tempest, the book represents a markedly fresh intervention in the topic of Shakespeare and religion. With great originality, McEachern argues that the English reception of the Calvinist imperative to 'know with' God allowed the very nature of literary involvement to change, transforming feeling for a character into feeling with one" -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. Believing. An apology for belief; Part II. An anatomy of believing. In Shakespeare; Feeling your knowledge; Genre, or the tupping point
- Part III. Person, plot, place. Person: Shakespeare's reformed characters; Plot, or the promised end; Place: location, location, location
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-319) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781108422246
- 1108422241
- OCLC:
- 1019835281
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