Believing in Shakespeare: Studies In Longing
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- Synopsis
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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.
Explores how belief was understood to operate in early modern England and not simply to study what those beliefs were.
Offers a study of the relations between believing in a Shakespeare play and believing in salvation.
Delivers a new approach to the study of dramatic irony and suspense in the plays of Shakespeare.
- Copyright:
- 2018
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108380737
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781108422246, 9781108422246
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 06/15/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Claire McEachern
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.