Shakespeare's Hybrid Faith : History, Religion and the Stage PDF
by J. Mayer
Part of the Early Modern Literature in History series
Description
Shakespeare's Hybrid Faith offers a complete review of current scholarship on Shakespeare and religion and a fresh perspective on the vexed question of the dramatist's religious orientation.
It throws new light on the issue by dismissing sectarian and one-sided theories, tackling the problem from the angle of the variegated Elizabethan context which modern historians and theatre scholars have recently uncovered.
The book - which relies to a large extent on primary material, including archival material (some of which has never been published before) - argues in particular that faith was more of a quest than a quiet certainty for the playwright.
Far from being silent on the subject of religion, Shakespeare in fact came back to this issue again and again throughout his career as a poet and dramatist, primarily to find answers to the religious questions that haunted him and his fellow Elizabethans.
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- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:04/08/2006
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- ISBN:9780230595897
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:04/08/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780230595897
