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The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare and religion / edited by Hannibal Hamlin.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR3011 .C285 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge companions to literature
- Cambridge companions to authors
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Religion.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Religion in literature.
- Religion and drama.
- Religion.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Shakespeare and religion
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Nothing in Shakespeare's England was as important as religion. Questions of faith informed everything from history and politics to love and family, work and play, good and evil, suffering and sacrifice, and ultimately life and death. Every one of Shakespeare's plays is rich in allusions to the Bible, church rites including baptism, communion, marriage, and burial, and a host of religious beliefs. This Companion provides an essential grounding in early modern religious history and culture and the ideas that Shakespeare returns to throughout his career. Chapters dedicated to close-readings of individual plays or groups of plays span both the complex and variegated Christian beliefs explored in Shakespeare's work, as well as the treatment of Judaism, Islam and classical paganism. Authored by an international team of eminent scholars and featuring an Afterword by Rowan Williams, this Companion is the most comprehensive and incisive guide to the topic that students will find"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Shakespeare and the Elizabethan and Jacobean Church / Thomas Betteridge
- Shakespeare: biography and belief / Andrew Hadfield
- The Renaissance Bible / Hannibal Hamlin
- The drama of the liturgy / Daniel Swift
- Popular religion / Phebe Jensen
- Grace and conversion / Helen Smith
- Love / Claire McEachern
- Sin and evil / Adrian Streete
- Compassion, affliction, and patience / Gary Kuchar
- Providence and divine right in the English histories / Jean-Christophe Mayer
- The Merchant of Venice, Jews, and Christians / M. Lindsay Kaplan
- Religious and political impasses in Measure for measure / Jennifer R. Rust
- Remembering the dead in Hamlet / Brian Cummings
- Othello, Islam, and the noble Moor: spiritual identity and the performance of blackness on the early modern stage / Daniel Vitkus
- Poetic creation in an apocalyptic age: King Lear and the making and the unmaking of the world / Kristen Poole
- Immortal longings in Shakespeare's Rome / Robert S. Miola
- Sacred and theatrical miracles in the romances / Tom Bishop
- Afterword. Finding the remedy / Rowan Williams.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781316624234
- 9781107172593
- 1107172594
- 1316624234
- OCLC:
- 1060180057
- Publisher Number:
- 99985070049
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