| Shakespeare and Religion Contributor(s): Shell, Alison (Author) |
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ISBN: 1472568176 ISBN-13: 9781472568175 Publisher: Arden Shakespeare OUR PRICE: $36.58 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Shakespeare |
| Dewey: 822.33 |
| LCCN: 2012358181 |
| Series: Arden Critical Companions |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 7.8" (0.75 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book sets Shakespeare in the religious context of his times, presenting a balanced, up-to-date account of current biographical and critical debates, and addressing the fascinating, under-studied topic of how Shakespeare's writing was perceived by literary contemporaries, whose priorities were more obviously religious than his own. It advances new readings of several plays, including Hamlet, King Lear and The Winter's Tale, and draws on under-exploited contemporary analogues, ranging from conversion narratives, books of devotion and polemical pamphlets to manuscript drama and emblems. This study describes a writer whose language is saturated in religious discourse but whose invariable practice is to subordinate religious matter to the aesthetic demands of the work. For Shakespeare, as for few of his contemporaries, the Judaeo-Christian story is something less than a master narrative. |
Contributor Bio(s): Shell, Alison: - Alison Shell is Professor of English at University College London. Formerly Professor of English at Durham, she now runs UCL English Department's MA in English: Shakespeare in History. She is an editor and critic, reviewing for the Times Literary Supplement, the Church Times and a number of academic journals. Principal works include: Catholicism, Controversy, and the English Literary Imagination, 1558-1660 (1999), Oral Culture and Catholicism in Early Modern England (2007), and Shakespeare And Religion (2011). |