Will to Believe - Shakespeare and Religion

Zusatztext David Kastan's meticulous book treads carefully between the pits already dug in this crowded field, combining sober biographical analysis, based on recent documentary research, with sensitive close readings ... Kastan effectively debunks crude biographical lunges from text to assumed context. Informationen zum Autor David Scott Kastan is the George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University. Among his books are Shakespeare and the Shapes of Time (1982), Shakespeare after Theory (1999), and Shakespeare and the Book (2001). He has produced important scholarly editions of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One, Milton's Paradise Lost, and Marlowe's Dr. Faustus; and he edited the five-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (2006). He currently serves as one of the general editors of the Arden Shakespeare. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction: A Will to Believe 2: Shakespeare's Religion 3: All Roads Lead to Rome 4: Conversion and Cosmopolitanism 5: Forgetting Hamlet

Product details

• Authors: David Scott Kastan, David Scott (George M. Bodman Professor of English Kastan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2014
• EAN: 9780199572892
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957289-2
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 207 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures; Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures; Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectu
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies