Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages

Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages

Author: Alfred Thomas

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-06-18

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 3319902180

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Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in order to critique the oppressive nature of the Tudor-Stuart state. In examining Shakespeare’s Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Winter’s Tale, the text explores how Shakespeare repossessed the medieval past to articulate political and religious dissent. By comparing these and other plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries with their medieval analogues, Alfred Thomas argues that Shakespeare was an ecumenical writer concerned with promoting tolerance in a highly intolerant and partisan age.


A Will to Believe

A Will to Believe

Author: David Scott Kastan

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 0199572895

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A Will to Believe is a revised version of Kastan's 2008 Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures, providing a provocative account of the ways in which religion animates Shakespeare's plays.


Shakespeare, Catholicism, and Romance

Shakespeare, Catholicism, and Romance

Author: Velma Bourgeois Richmond

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-12-17

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1474247490

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This book assesses William Shakespeare in the context of political and religious crisis, paying particular attention to his Catholic connections, which have heretofore been underplayed by much Protestant interpretation. Bourgeois Richmond's most important contribution is to study the genre of romance in its guise as a 'cover' for recusant Catholicism, drawing on a long tradition of medieval-religious plays devoted to the propagation of Catholic religious faith.


Medieval Shakespeare

Medieval Shakespeare

Author: Ruth Morse

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-02-07

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1107016274

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This book gives readers the opportunity to appreciate Shakespeare from the perspectives of the late-medieval European traditions that surrounded him.


Shakespeare and the Grace of Words

Shakespeare and the Grace of Words

Author: Valentin Gerlier

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-05-29

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1000582558

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Crossing the boundaries between literature, philosophy and theology, Shakespeare and the Grace of Words pioneers a reading strategy that approaches language as grounded in praise; that is, as affirmation and articulation of the goodness of Being. Offering a metaphysically astute theology of language grounded in the thought of Renaissance theologian Nicholas of Cusa, as well as readings of Shakespeare that instantiate and complement its approach, this book shows that language in which the divine gift of Being is received, apprehended and expressed, even amidst darkness and despair, is language that can renew our relationship with one another and with the things and beings of the world. Shakespeare and the Grace of Words aims to engage the reader in detailed, performative close readings while exploring the metaphysical and theological contours of Shakespeare’s art—as a venture into a poetic illumination of the deep grammar of the real.


Shakespeare's Hybrid Faith

Shakespeare's Hybrid Faith

Author: J. Mayer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-08-04

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0230595898

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This book throws new light on the issue of the dramatist's religious orientation by dismissing sectarian and one-sided theories, tackling the problem from the angle of the variegated Elizabethan context recently uncovered by modern historians and theatre scholars. It is argued that faith was a quest rather than a quiet certainty for the playwright.


Shakespeare and His Biographical Afterlives

Shakespeare and His Biographical Afterlives

Author: Paul Franssen

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2020-04-09

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1789206898

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New Shakespeare biographies are published every year, though very little new documentary evidence has come to light. Inevitably speculative, these biographies straddle the line between fact and fiction. Shakespeare and His Biographical Afterlives explores the relationship between fiction and non-fiction within Shakespeare’s biography, across a range of subjects including feminism, class politics, wartime propaganda, children’s fiction, and religion, expanding beyond the Anglophone world to include countries such as Germany and Spain, from the seventeenth century to present day.


The Catholic Shakespeare?

The Catholic Shakespeare?

Author: The Portsmouth Institute

Publisher: Sheed & Ward

Published: 2013-04-11

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1580512763

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Was Shakespeare Catholic? By observing Shakespeare’s history and his plays evidence suggests that he was sympathetic to the Catholics’ plight. He had personal connections to people who were persecuted for their faith and throughout his plays there is evidence of a Catholic worldview. The Catholic Shakespeare? gives an inside look at the 2011 Portsmouth Institute conference, offering different takes from speakers to Shakespearean plays. Each speaker offers compelling evidence and some suggestions about the basis and meaning behind his plays as they relate to a Catholic view. Dr. Gerard Kilroy, University College, London, assembles linguistic and thematic cues to suggest Romeo and Juliet as an allegory for believers and the Catholic Church. Dennis Taylor, Boston College, takes a more historical approach in his review of Shakespeare's play The Tempest, tracing Catholic links to early efforts to explore the Americas. And, finally, Fr. David Beauregard, St. Clement seminary, takes a religious and philosophical look at relationships, charity, and the development of virtue in The Tempest. The Catholic Shakespeare is a must-read for anyone interested in the mystery behind Shakespeare’s religion.


Walsingham in Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity

Walsingham in Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity

Author: Dominic Janes

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780754669241

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Though well known as a shrine to the Virgin Mary and as a popular pilgrimage site, Walsingham has only recently received serious scholarly attention. This volume represents the first collection of multi-disciplinary essays on Walsingham's broader significance. Contributors focus on the hitherto neglected issue of Walsingham's cultural impact: the literary, historical, art historical and sociological significance that Walsingham has had since the later Middle Ages.


William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Author: Harold Bloom

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1604136332

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Shakespeare's tragedy about two star-crossed lovers from warring families has stirred audiences and readers alike and inspired other artists for generations with its timeless themes of love and loss. This invaluable new study guide examines one of Shakespeare's greatest plays through a selection of the finest contemporary criticism.