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Citizen-Saints : Shakespeare and Political Theology / Julia Reinhard Lupton.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lupton, Julia Reinhard, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political theology--History of doctrines--16th century.
- Political theology.
- Political theology--History of doctrines--17th century.
- Political plays, English--History and criticism.
- Political plays, English.
- Christian drama, English--History and criticism.
- Christian drama, English.
- Christian saints in literature.
- Citizenship in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (291 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Turning to the potent idea of political theology to recover the strange mix of political and religious thinking during the Renaissance, this bracing study reveals in the works of Shakespeare and his sources the figure of the citizen-saint, who represents at once divine messenger and civil servant, both norm and exception. Embodied by such diverse personages as Antigone, Paul, Barabbas, Shylock, Othello, Caliban, Isabella, and Samson, the citizen-saint is a sacrificial figure: a model of moral and aesthetic extremity who inspires new regimes of citizenship with his or her death and martyrdom. Among the many questions Julia Reinhard Lupton attempts to answer under the rubric of the citizen-saint are: how did states of emergency, acts of sovereign exception, and Messianic anticipations lead to new forms of religious and political law? What styles of universality were implied by the abject state of the pure creature, at sea in a creation abandoned by its creator? And how did circumcision operate as both a marker of ethnicity and a means of conversion and civic naturalization? Written with clarity and grace, Citizen-Saints will be of enormous interest to students of English literature, religion, and early modern culture.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A note on texts
- Introduction
- One. Citizen Paul
- Two. Deformations of Fellowship in Marlowe's Jew of Malta
- Three. Merchants of Venice, Circles of Citizenship
- Four. Othello Circumcised
- Five. Antigone in Vienna
- Six. Creature Caliban
- Seven. Samson Dagonistes
- Epilogue: The Literature of Citizenship: A Humanifesto
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780226157443
- 022615744X
- OCLC:
- 869096310
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