Shakespeare and the Outer Mystery
Shakespeare and the Outer Mystery

Author: Robert H. West

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0813183596

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Shakespeare has been viewed by critics both as a secular writer who affirmed the dual nature of man and as a Christian allegorist whose work has a submerged but positive and elaborate pattern of Christian meaning. In Shakespeare and the Outer Mystery, Robert H. West explores the philosophical and supernatural elements of five Shakespearean dramas—Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and The Tempest. Through his analysis, West discovers Shakespeare's respect for the mysteries of existence but no clear definition of the philosophical and moral context of his play worlds. An artistic motivation leads Shakespeare to use these elements ambiguously to create a dramatic effect rather than to teach a moral or ideological lesson.

Shakespeare and the Mystery of God's Judgments
Shakespeare and the Mystery of God's Judgments

Author: Robert G. Hunter

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 0820338540

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Robert G. Hunter maintains that the impact of the Protestant Reformation on the Elizabethan mind was in great part responsible for the emergence of the outstanding tragedies of the age. Luther and Calvin caused men to ask how God can be just if man is not free, and Shakespeare's greatest tragedies confront the vexing problems posed by these altered conceptions of man's freedom of will and God's providential control of natural circumstance. Shakespeare's audiences were not single-minded. He wrote for semi-Pelagians, Augustinians, Calvinists, and men and women who did not know what to think. Confl icting certainties, doubts, and uncertainties were his raw material, both within his mind and the minds of the audience. Hunter shows how Shakespeare uses the major attitudes toward God's judgment in creating Richard III, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear. He notes that Shakespeare's different viewpoints are the heart of the tragedies themselves. Even after Shakespeare's imaginative considerations of the mysteries, the tragedies seem to consistently provide questions rather than answers, and what they inspire in their beholders is more likely to be doubt than faith.

Indian Response to Shakespeare
Indian Response to Shakespeare

Author: Ed. Basavaraj Naikar

Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9788126900787

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Essays Collected In This Anthology Offer Glimpses Of Indian Response To Shakespeare, The Myriad Minded Genius Of The World. Shakespeare Has Influenced The Indian Readers, Researchers, Translators, Directors And Actors Very Deeply. The Indian Scholars With Various Cultural And Linguistic Backgrounds Have Tried To Appropriate The Beauty And Meaning Of Shakespeareana In Their Own Way Like The Five Blind Men In The Buddha'S Story Trying To Understand The Elephant And Shown The Way To The Future Scholars Of India To Pursue Fruitfully.Among The Contributors To This Volume Are Both The Senior And The Younger Scholars Of India Like R.S. Pathak, Mohit K. Ray, Shweta Khanna, Basavaraj Naikar, Rama Kundu, O.P. Budholia, Sudhir Dixit, Sahdeo Chougule, B.G. Tandon, Nivedita Mukerjee, Shabiba Khan And Narasimha Ramayya, Who Have Dealt With Various Aspects Of Shakespearean Drama In The Indian Context.

Faith and Folly in Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies
Faith and Folly in Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies

Author: R. Chris Hassel, Jr.

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2011-05-01

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0820338532

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An enduring debate among scholars has focused on the degree to which Shakespeare's plays are indebted to the Christian culture in which they were created and the manner of demonstrating that indebtedness. R. Chris Hassel, Jr. points out informed allusions to familiar Pauline and Erasmian Christian passages and themes present in Love's Labor's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado about Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Merchant of Venice. He argues that not only did Shakespeare's audience understand these allusions but also that these allusions led the audience to recognize their pertinence to the playwright's uniquely Christian comic vision. Furthermore, Hassel feels this understanding of the relationship between Shakespeare's comic artistry and Christianity leads to a greater appreciation of the plays.

Catholic Theology in Shakespeare's Plays
Catholic Theology in Shakespeare's Plays

Author: David N. Beauregard

Publisher: Associated University Presse

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0874130026

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Explores and reexamines Shakespeare's theology from the standpoint of revisionist history of the English Reformation.

Shakespeare's Tragic Form
Shakespeare's Tragic Form

Author: Robert Lanier Reid

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780874137255

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Since about 1960, when five-act division in Shakespeare's plays was strongly disputed, most critics have focused on individual scenes rather than holistic form. This book argues for Shakespeare's use of five acts, arranged in three cycles to form a 2-1-2 pattern. It also examines the role of multiple plots and centers of consciousness, especially in the festive comedies and romances. Additionally, it traces Shakespeare's gradual mastery of the art of epiphany, compares it to Spenser's complementary focus on transcendent reality, and traces in Macbeth the dark mode of Shakespeare's dramaturgical pattern.

The Shakespeare Play as Poem
The Shakespeare Play as Poem

Author: S. Viswanathan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1980-11-20

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0521225477

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A balanced critique of the reading of Shakespeare's plays as dramatic poems.

Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw
Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw

Author: Lagretta Lenker

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2001-04-30

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0313000573

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How can the most silent member of the family carry the message of subversion against venerated institutions of state and society? Why would two playwrights, writing 300 years apart, employ the same dramatic methods for rebelling against the establishment, when these methods are virtually ignored by their contemporaries? This book considers these and similar questions. It examines the historical similarities of the eras in which Shakespeare and Shaw wrote and then explores types of father-daughter interactions, considering each in terms of the existing power structures of society. These two dramatists draw on themes of incest, daughter sacrifice, role playing, education, and androgyny to create both active and passive daughters. The daughters literally represent a challenge to the patriarchy and metaphorically extend that challenge to such institutions as church and state. The volume argues that the father-daughter relationship was the ideal dramatic vehicle for Shakespeare and Shaw to advance their social and political agendas. By exploring larger issues through the father-daughter relationship, both playwrights were able to avoid the watchful eyes of censors and comment on such topics as the divine right of kings, filial bonds of obedience, and even regicide.