Shakespeare's Religious Language

Shakespeare's Religious Language

Author: R. Chris Hassel Jr.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-03-26

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1472577299

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Religious issues and discourse are key to an understanding of Shakespeare's plays and poems. This dictionary discusses over 1000 words and names in Shakespeare's works that have a religious connotation. Its unique word-by-word approach allows equal consideration of the full nuance of each of these words, from 'abbess' to 'zeal'. It also gradually reveals the persistence, the variety, and the sophistication of Shakespeare's religious usage. Frequent attention is given to the prominence of Reformation controversy in these words, and to Shakespeare's often ingenious and playful metaphoric usage of them. Theological commonplaces assume a major place in the dictionary, as do overt references to biblical figures, biblical stories and biblical place-names; biblical allusions; church figures and saints.


A Selective Bibliography of Shakespeare

A Selective Bibliography of Shakespeare

Author: James G. McManaway

Publisher: Associated University Presses

Published: 1978-07

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780918016034

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This bibliography provides easy access to the most important Shakespeare studies in the past four decades. Brief annotations, a detailed table of contents, cross-references, and a complete index make this bibliography especially useful.


Shakespeare and Latinidad

Shakespeare and Latinidad

Author: Trevor Boffone

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2021-06-30

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 147448851X

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Shakespeare and Latinidad is a collection of scholarly and practitioner essays in the field of Latinx theatre that specifically focuses on Latinx productions and appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays.


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.


The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies

Author: Lukas Erne

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-03-25

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1350080640

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The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and textual studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on all the major areas of current research, notably the Shakespeare manuscripts; the printed text and paratext in Shakespeare's early playbooks and poetry books; Shakespeare's place in the early modern book trade; Shakespeare's early readers, users, and collectors; the constitution and evolution of the Shakespeare canon from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century; Shakespeare's editors from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century; and the modern editorial reproduction of Shakespeare. The Handbook also devotes separate chapters to new directions and developments in research in the field, specifically in the areas of digital editing and of authorship attribution methodologies. In addition, the Companion contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A-Z of key terms and concepts, a guide to research methods and problems, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field, and a substantial annotated bibliography. The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies is a reference work aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars and libraries, a guide to beginning or developing research in the field, an essential companion for all those interested in Shakespeare and textual studies.


Inside Shakespeare

Inside Shakespeare

Author: Paul Menzer

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781575910772

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This collection of essays addresses questions peculiar to the Blackfriars and indoor playing: Did the Blackfriars have its own repertory? What was the place of the Blackfriars in the urban economy? What qualities did the Blackfriars share with the long tradition of great-hall performances? The essays span a range of approaches from performative to historical to textual.--Publisher's description.


Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century

Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century

Author: Jesse M. Gellrich

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1995-03-06

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1400821665

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This wide-ranging study of language and cultural change in fourteenth-century England argues that the influence of oral tradition is much more important to the advance of literacy than previously supposed. In contrast to the view of orality and literacy as opposing forces, the book maintains that the power of language consists in displacement, the capacity of one channel of language to take the place of the other, to make the source disappear into the copy. Appreciating the interplay between oral and written language makes possible for the first time a way of understanding the high literate achievements of this century in relation to momentous developments in social and political life. Part I reasseses the "nominalism" of Ockham and the "realism" of Wyclif through discussions of their major treatises on language and government. Part II argues that the chronicle histories of this century are tied specifically to oral customs, and Part III shows how Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Chaucer's Knight's Tale confront outright the displacement of language and dominion. Informed by recent discussions in critical theory, philosophy, and anthropology, the book offers a new synoptic view of fourteenth-century culture. As a critique of the social context of medieval literacy, it speaks directly to postmodern debate about the politics of historicism today.